User Manuals on Accessing and Using the MAS

This document comprises the deliverable D2.1 that describes the setup on the Multi-Agent System based on the Janus SARL runtime as MAS, BaSyx as a middleware for hosting AASs and Kafka as an event strimming middleware. The goal is to separate the agent internal technologies from the agent framework in order enable separate development of AI components which will be efficiently deployed in the MAS. The system will provide the technology for the subsequent integration of various kinds of agents from the work packages WP2 – WP5.
First, the general concepts of the Janus SARL MAS as well as its setup are described. Second, an overview, installation steps and setup of the BaSyx-Middleware, for example for AAS usage, are given. After that, the Kafka middleware installation and setup steps as well as code snippets for creating simple publisher/subscriber are presented. Different possibilities for integrating of agents’ programs into the MAS framework are show. In the end the setup of knowledge-based interactions inside the MAS4AI framework is discussed.