Type of Research: Private Corporation (Charles River Analytics).

Summary:
CRA creates large-scale, multi-agent systems for the Air Force. “In this paper, we present the latest implementation of our developing SAMPLE agent architecture, within the context of our advanced GRADE agent toolkit.”

Below is a screen shot of the GRADE toolkit:

“Each GRADE component provides a specialized graphical user interface (GUI) for the construction and testing of the corresponding SAMPLE component. For example, our expert system component allows the user to define the antecedents and consequents of each rule, and then test the behavior of the rule on user defined inputs.

Within GRADE, creating a communication link between two components is done by dragging a linking tool from one component to another. The developer must then ensure that the components are capable of processing the content they receive by defining an XSL transformation that will reformat and filter the outgoing message data of the transmitting component to conform to the schema of the receiving component.”

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