Make Agents Yourself

h1. SpeADL MAY

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

h2. Publications

* +Book Chapter+: Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Victor Noel, Frédéric Migeon. _Architectures logicielles et systèmes multi-agents_. In: _Architectures logicielles : Principes, techniques et outils_. Mourad OUSSALAH (Eds.), Hermès Science, 10, 2013. 

* +Ph.D. Thesis+: Victor Noel. "_Component-based Software Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems: Mutual and Complementary Contributions for Supporting Software Development_":http://www.irit.fr/~Victor.Noel/PhD/Dissertation. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toulouse, July 2012.

* +French Journal+: 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 CAL’2011_, Vol. RNTI-L-6, p. 1-26, 2012.

* +Conference+: Jérôme Lacouture, Victor Noel, Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes. "_Engineering Agent Frameworks: An Application in Multi-Robot Systems (short paper)_":http://www.springerlink.com/content/6786u637gh61v777/. 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.

* +Workshop+: Victor Noel, Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes. "_Between Design and Implementation of Multi-Agent Systems: A Component-Based Two-Step Process_":ftp://ftp.irit.fr/IRIT/SMAC/DOCUMENTS/PUBLIS/eumas-2010-noel.pdf. In: _European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2010), Paris (France), 16/12/10-17/12/10_, Paris Descartes University, December 2010.

h2. Available Versions

h3. MAY

The current version of MAY is 3.2.1 and introduce the latest features presented in the "Doctoral Dissertation of Victor Noël":http://www.irit.fr/~Victor.Noel/PhD/Dissertation.

Previous versions for Helios (v3 and v2) are available at this page: [[Previous Versions]].

Eclipse's update site for Kepler is:

 http://www.irit.fr/~Victor.Noel/may/update-may-3.2/

If Eclipse complains about missing dependencies, add also the following update site and try the install again:

 http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/xtext/updates/composite/releases/

h3. Reusable Components

Reusable components are numbered 3.2.X (currently latest is 3.2.1), see the Maven integration for details.

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

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

h2. Installation

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

h2. Setting up a project

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

h2. 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]].

h2. Sources

The source code can be downloaded using the Mercurial DVCS:

MAY:

 https://anon@wwwsecu.irit.fr/hg/SMAC/victor-noel-phd/may/may-xtext2/

Libraries and examples:

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

For Mercurial integration in Eclipse, the following plugin is good: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mercurialeclipse