Subject: RE: [jade-develop] Behaviour scheduling in an multi-agent system
From: Caire Giovanni (Giovanni.Caire@TILAB.COM)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 09:49:45 MET
Hi,
You are allowed to create new agents from within another agent. I'm afraid but there should be something wrong with your code.
Is the setup() method of B and C executed? Does it return?
Bye
Giovanni
-----Original Message-----
From: David [mailto:amdawong@starhub.net.sg]
Sent: marted́ 3 dicembre 2002 7.37
To: JADE
Subject: [jade-develop] Behaviour scheduling in an multi-agent system
Hi Jaders,
It says in the programmer's guide that the behaviours added to an agent are scheduled in a round robin manner.
I have an question: What if I have one main agent A creating several other agents say agent B and agent C.
Agent B and C are created in agent A via the creatNewAgent(.....) method (in Agent A itself).
Agent B and C are made to called the start() method.
In Agent B and C, I each added some behaviours to it in their respective setup();.
PROBLEM: Only behaviours in Agent A are executed. Behaviours in B & C never got executed. Why ?
Is there something with the way I am programming my agents ?
Am I allowed to create agents in another agents ? Or should I always run each agent as in separate JVM( that is
run from command prompt as different command window, thus different JVM) ??
I look forward to your help and assistance ( clarifications if my concepts of agents are wrong altogether!!)
Regards
David