SMAS 2.0b   A Primer

  4. The Factorial Example

The best way to learn how to use SMAS is to work some simple examples.

The factorial example is a well known example for testing multi-agent basic capabilities. It normally contains only 4 agents:

• an agent called factorial that knows how to compute a factorial but does not know how to multiply two numbers
• three multiplying agents (MUL-1, MUL-2, MUL-3) that know how to multiply two numbers, but do not how to compute a factorial.

However, here we added a fifth agent, called PROXY, to demonstrate how one can ask an agent to activate other agents.

In this section we show how the various scenarios should run according to the different simulator settings.

4.1. The SC-1 Scenario - MULTIPLY and FACTORIAL

4.2. The SC-2 Scenario - PROXY and FACTORIAL

4.3. The SC-3 Scenario - Contract-Net

4.4. The SC-4 and SC-5 Scenarios - Contract - Net

4.5. The SC-6 Scenario - Timeout

4.6. The SC-7 Scenario - Contract-Net and Timeout

Copyrignt Jean-Paul Barthès@UTC, 1998 Last update, Jan 99