
16-6 Industrial Communication Systems
the graphical interface of two tools provided by JADE, namely the Remote Management and the
Sniffer agents. The last
one
is
a
debugging
tool
that
allows
tracking
messages
exchanged
in
a
JADE
environment
usin
g
a not
ation
simi
lar
to Uni
ed
Mod
eling
Lan
guage
(UM
L)
seq
uence
dia
grams.
Jadex,
as
an
extension
of
Jade,
is
one
of
the
few
examples
of
a
platform
that
also
provides
support
for
the
reasoning
capabilities
of
agents
(cf.
http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/).
Its
reasoning
engine
implements
the Bel
ief-Desire-Intention
mod
el.
16.3 Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in Industry
Classical centralized solutions ...