Overview of a scripting language for JADE-based multi-agent systems

This paper outlines the major features of Jadescript, a scripting language designed to support agent-oriented programming. The core abstractions that Jadescript provides are those related to event-driven agents and message passing, and the view of multi-agent systems that it promotes is closely related to that offered by JADE. Programmers using Jadescript are granted a dedicated syntax largely inspired by modern scripting languages, and major programming activities are supported in the scope of the language with a marked raise of the level of abstraction with respect to the direct use of JADE.