Janus platform provides features to simulate agent-oriented, organization-oriented, and holonic-oriented systems.
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Reasons to move up to Janus
This sessions list several reasons to move up to Janus from another multiagent platform.
Methodology, Metamodel and Model
- ASPECS: a specification-to-code methodology integrating Janus.
- CRIO: Janus provides a complete implementation of the organizational metamodel CRIO.
- Janus natively support holons and recursive agents.
- Role is first-class object; and it is a behavior and a status at the same time.
- Agent known-how are defined in capacities and invoked from role behaviors.
- It is possible to be agent-based and organization-based at the same time.
Development and Coding
- Janus is fully compatible with OSGi. Janus modules and tools may be integrated in Eclipse framework.
- Janus is fully compatible with Maven: easier compilation, and deployment.
- The same code is used for heavy and light agents. You do not need to maintain two classes.
Deployment and Running
- Janus is fully compatible with OSGi. Janus modules and tools may be easily launched in an opened environment.
- Janus uses JXTA to support deployment on a network. It permits to be open and robust.
- Janus is open source for academic use. See license for details.
Migration details per platform
Janus community provides mapping tables between other multiagent platforms and Janus.
- Cormas → Janus
- Jack → Janus
- Jade → Janus
- Jadex → Janus (coming soon with BDI extras)
- JAgent → Janus
- Jason → Janus (coming soon with AgentSpeak extras)
- MadKit → Janus
- Magique → Janus
- Masson → Janus
- NetLogo → Janus
- Omas → Janus
- Repast → Janus
- StarLogo → Janus
- Swarm → Janus
- TinyMAS → Janus
You are welcome to contribute to this section by updated a migration table or providing a new one.
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