Agent-oriented model-driven development for JADE with the JADEL programming language

Section 1 introduces and motivates the presented work. Section 2 surveys major AOP languages and, even if it cannot be considered exhaustive, it highlights the specific features of selected languages that have been relevant for the design of JADEL. Section 3 provides an overview of the features of JADE that are supported by JADEL. Section 4 presents the language in details by discussing main supported abstractions, and by specifying its formal syntax. Section 5 presents the most interesting parts of a complete example of the use of JADEL to develop a simple multi-agent system. Finally, Section 6 concludes the paper with a discussion of the current state of the presented work, and a preliminary assessment of the proposed language.