SpeADL MAY¶

This page is about the version of MAY based on the SpeADL language.

Publications¶

• Victor Noel. _Component-based Software Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems: Mutual and Complementary Contributions for Supporting Software Development_. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toulouse, July 2012.
• Victor Noel, Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes. Une approche architecturale à base de composants pour l'implémentation des Systèmes Multi-Agents. In : Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information, Cépaduès Editions, Numéro spécial Avancées récentes dans le domaine des Architectures Logicielles : articles sélectionnés et étendus de CAL2011, Vol. RNTI-L-6, p. 1-26, 2012.
• Jérôme Lacouture, Victor Noel, Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes. _Engineering Agent Frameworks: An Application in Multi-Robot Systems (short paper)_. In: International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 2011), Salamanca (Spain), 06/04/11-08/04/11, Vol. 88, Yves Demazeau, Michal Pechoucek, M. Corchado, Javier Bajo Pérez (Eds.), Springer, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, p. 75-85, 2011.
• Victor Noel, Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes. _Between Design and Implementation of Multi-Agent Systems: A Component-Based Two-Step Process_. In: European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2010), Paris (France), 16/12/10-17/12/10, Paris Descartes University, December 2010.

Available Versions¶

V3¶

The current version of MAY is 3.1 and introduce the latest features presented in the Doctoral Dissertation of Victor Noël.

Eclipse's update sites and detailed instructions are available on this page: MAY PhD.

V2¶

The previous version still used in numerous projects is version 2, it can be installed using the following update site:

http://www.irit.fr/~Victor.Noel/may/update-may-2/

Reusable components are numbered 2.X.X (currently latest is 2.1.3), see the Maven integration for details.

Installation¶

For an installation guide MAY, see the page SpeADL MAY Install.

Setting up a project¶

For a guide to set-up a new project with MAY, see the page SpeADL MAY Project SetUp.

Maven integration¶

For a guide to set-up a project with Maven, see the page SpeADL MAY Project SetUp.
For maven support in Eclipse, see the page Maven Plugin Install for Eclipse.

Maven artefacts with common components are available at the following repository:

http://www.irit.fr/~Victor.Noel/maven-repos/

Sources¶

The source code can be downloaded using the Mercurial DVCS:

MAY:

hg clone https://anon@wwwsecu.irit.fr/hg/SMAC/victor-noel-phd/may/may/

Libraries and examples:

hg clone https://anon@wwwsecu.irit.fr/hg/SMAC/victor-noel-phd/may/lib/

For Mercurial integration in Eclipse, the following plugin is good: http://javaforge.com/project/HGE

In particular, the following update site can be used:

http://cbes.javaforge.com/update