Over the last few years more complex and flexible techniques have been needed to develop hard real-time systems. The agent paradigm seems to be an appropriate approach to be applied in this area. ARTIS is an agent architecture suitable for hard real-time agents. This paper is focused on an extension of the control module of ARTIS agents that provides a soft real-time control architecture inside...

In order to effectively develop multi-agent systems (MAS) software, a set of models, technologies and tools are needed to support flexible and precise specification and implementation of agent-to-agent conversations, standardized conversation protocols, and corresponding agent behaviors. Experience trying to build complex protocols with the ZEUS and JADE agent toolkits motivated a substantial e...

To analyze emergent behavior, a formal framework is needed to characterize the structure and dynamics of complex interaction-based multi-agent systems. We introduce an extension of an existing agent testbed for artificial societies making it possible to formally analyze the dynamics of the simulated agent system. The extension generates temporally annotated logical terms that describe parts of ...

Simulators of real-time systems are usually oriented to the evaluation of how different schedulers perform under different loads. Existing simulators can be split into two groups, one where scheduling algorithms are native to the simulator and one where they have to be programmed as part of the model. RTsim falls in the first group, enabling the simulation of some selected algorithms. In this p...

Candidate biological control agents of invasive insect pests are increasingly being found in new geographic regions as a result unintentional introductions. However, testing the degree genetic differentiation among adventive and native-range populations these is rarely done. We used reduced-representation sequencing genomic DNA to investigate relationships laboratory lines Trissolcus japonicus ...

This paper describes Janet package — highly expressive Java language extension that enables convenient creation of powerful native methods and efficient Java-to-native code interfaces. Java native interface (JNI) is a low-level API that is rather inconvenient if used directly. Therefore Janet, as the higher-level tool, combines flexibility of JNI with Java’s ease-of-use. Performance results of ...