The Pattern Repository

Pattern Repository Organization

Here we describe how is documented a generic pattern. A detailed description of patterns is here.

Service patterns

Pattern name	Brief description	FIPAOS	JADE
Explorer	In a distributed open environment, a couple of base-explorer agents is able to collect data from 1..n remote platform(s) while maintaining the centrality of the reasoning process over this data.		X
FIPARequest	This pattern gives to two agents the ability to communicate with a FIPA Request protocol.	X	X
FIPAQuery	This pattern gives to two agents the ability to communicate with a FIPA Query protocol.	X	X
Inform	This pattern gives to two agents the ability to communicate with an Inform protocol.	X	X

Component patterns

Pattern name	Brief description	FIPAOS	JADE
Generic_Agent	This pattern defines a simple structure of an agent that register itself in the agent platform (AMS and DF services)	X	X
GenericLogAgent	This pattern defines a simple structure of an agent that register itself in the agent platform (AMS and DF services) and grants a log for all its operation.		X

Behaviour patterns

Pattern name	Brief description	FIPAOS	JADE
FIPARequestInitiatorTask	This pattern gives to an agent the ability to initiate a FIPA Request communication with another agent.	X	X
FIPARequestPartecipantTask	This pattern gives to an agent the ability to participate to a FIPA Request communication initiated by another agent.	X	X
FIPAQueryInitiatorTask	This pattern gives to an agent the ability to initiate a FIPA Query-If or Query-Ref communication with another agent.	X	X
FIPAQueryPartecipantTask	This pattern gives to an agent the ability to participate to a FIPA Query-If or Query-Ref communication initiated by another agent.	X	X
InformInitiatorTask	This pattern gives to an agent the ability to send a data to another agent with a single communication act.	X	X
InformPartecipantTask	This pattern gives to an agent the ability to receive a data from another agent with an inform per formative act.	X	X