Welcome on the Janus Website

Janus is an enterprise-ready open-source multi-agent platform fully implemented in Java 1.6. Janus enables developers to quickly create web, enterprise and desktop multiagent-based applications. It provides a comprehensive set of features to develop, run, display and monitor multiagent-based applications. Janus-based applications can be distributed across a network. Janus is built upon the CRIO organizational metamodel and supports the implementation of the concepts of role and organisation as first-class entities. It also natively manages the concept of recursive agents or holon.

Janus is free for non-commercial use and distributed under the terms of the GPLv3.

Janus is jointly developed by the multiagent teams of the Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports and the Centro de Investigación de Tecnologías Avanzadas de Tucumán.

Software Companies

The Janus Team is fully at your disposal to help you accomplish your project.

Academics

Janus demo set offers a good support for your laboratory works and applying the multiagent concepts introduced in your lessons. Janus also offers a robust set of tools to help your students develop their academic skills.

Janus Key Principles

The software-engineering principles adopted for developing Janus

Rigor
Separation of concerns
Abstraction
Generality
Incremental Design and Development
DRY - Code Reuse
Design Patterns
Portability
Modularity
Interoperability
Complex systems (Recursivity/Multi-level)
Robustness
Concurrency
Anticipation of change

Janus features

Platform independent: Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOS, Android

Holonic systems - recursive agent

CRIO organizational metamodel, organizations as patterns and dynamic change of roles

Agent-external world communication (GUI, Database, etc.)

Agent-to-agent communication

Role-to-role organizational-based communication

Intra-agent, agent-to-role, and role-to-agent event-based communications

Network peer-to-peer communication (JXTA)

Agent observation toolkit

Service-oriented agent architecture

Predefined mental states of agents

Customizable agent execution model

Custom scheduling models and policies

OSGi support (Felix and Equinox)

Maven support

Unit test

Multi-agent based simulation (MABS)

Major Links

General Information
Development with Janus

Events

2012-01-31Roadmap of Janus is public.
2011-10-30Preference file for Eclipse Indigo IDE (Conventions)
2011-10-05Updated FAQ
2011-09-28New page dedicated to teaching activities. You're welcome to contribute.
2011-03-03Release of Janus 0.4: download, changes.
2011-02-15Janus is distributed under the GPLv3 license.
2010-12-15Janus at the 7th Agent-Oriented Software Engineeing Technical Forum (Paris, France).
2010-12-14Janus platform on Wikipedia
2010-11-18First public release of Jaak extension and its Ant Colony demo.
2010-08-06Release of Janus 0.3: download, changes.
2010-08-25Open forums to public.

2012-01-31Roadmap of Janus is public.

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