From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2004-12-02T01:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Multi-Agent system in Ruby?

On Dec 1, 2004, at 8:50 AM, (Curne) Simon Conrad-Armes wrote:

>
> On 2004 Dec, 1, at 14:37, martinus wrote:
>
>> Hi! recently I have started working with Multi-agent systems (Jade,
>> written in Java), and while multi-agent systems are pretty cool, it is
>> not an easy way to write applications. I am playing with the idea of
>> writing a simple multi-agent system in Ruby, just to learn more about
>> this topic. So, does any multi-agent system exist that is written in
>> Ruby?
>>
>> martinus
>>
>
>
> If I read the wikipedia 
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent_system] correctly it is a 
> bit like Jini, right? Then maybe Rinda 
> [http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rinda/rdoc/index.html] would be 
> up that alley?
>

If you google "multi agent system ruby" you'll probably find a few 
things.
Also, this: http://dnssd.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
can be used for discovery ( an important part of every multi agent 
system, right :).

-Charlie