The PRACTIONIST Development Tool

PRACTIONIST (PRACTIcal reasONIng sySTem) [1] is a suite of tools including (see figure 1): (i) a methodology, consisting of a UML-based modelling language (PAML) and an iterative and incremental development process, (ii) the PRACTIONIST runtime and framework (PRF), which defines and supports the execution logic and provides the builtin components according to such a logic to support the development of BDI agents in Java (using JADE1) with a Prolog belief base, and (iii) the PRACTIONIST Development Tool (PDT), a design and development environment which supports the methodology. The PRF also includes the PAIT, to monitor the intentional components of each agent and the PRACTIONIST Autonomic Manager (PAM) which enables PRACTIONIST applications to support the self-chop features 2 (self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing and self-protecting) In this abstract we give an overview of the PDT, the modelling environment that is a part of the PRACTIONIST suite (figure 1), the metamodel it is built on, and a brief introduction of the PDT visual editors.