Tutorial 3 ACL: Agent Communication Language Dr. Fuhua Lin School of Computing and Information Systems Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada Oct. 27, 2009

Initiate a conversation using SimpleAchieveREInitiator public class SimpleRequestInitiator extends Agent {    static class MarriageProposer extends SimpleAchieveREInitiator { protected MarriageProposer(Agent agent, ACLMessage msg) {            super(agent, msg);        } … … 2. Message Sending In the parent class 1. Message construction } Reference: http://jade.tilab.com/doc/programmersguide.pdf

Using Standard Handlers as methods of MarriageProposer protected void handleAgree(ACLMessage msg) {            System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ": Ha Ha! " +            msg.getSender().getLocalName() +” has already agreed to marry me. I'm so excited!");  }         protected void handleRefuse(ACLMessage msg) {            System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ": Oh no! " +            msg.getSender().getLocalName() +rejected me. I feel sad.");   } protected void handleInform(ACLMessage msg) {            System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ":" +            msg.getSender().getLocalName() +" has informed me of the status of my request." +            " They said : " + msg.getContent());        }        protected void handleNotUnderstood(ACLMessage msg){            System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ":"                + msg.getSender().getLocalName() +                " has indicated that they didn't understand.");        }        protected void handleOutOfSequence(ACLMessage msg) {            System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ":"                 + msg.getSender().getLocalName() +  "has sent me a message which I wasn't" +                " expecting in this conversation"); }

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