Make Agents Yourself¶

Description¶

MAY (Make Agents Yourself) is a tool to build architectures usable to support development and execution of multi-agent systems.
Its main objective is to reduce the development effort of agent-based applications by bringing the development support closer to the business needs through the building of component-based software architectures and reuse of components.

For a detailed general presentation of MAY with bibliographical resources in English and French.

MAY is available as an Eclipse plugin (based on the Xtext Framework).

MAY is a free software and is distributed under the GPL and LGPL.

Why Use MAY?¶

Read here why MAY could be useful for you.

Documentation¶

For more information on how to use MAY, go to the following page: Make Agents Yourself.

(Unofficial) List of Users of MAY¶

MAY is used:

• In the SMAC Team, mostly by Ph.D. students.
• At UPETEC, a start-up applying the research results of the SMAC Team in the industrial world.
• By the students of the Master Développement Logiciel (Software Engineering) to discover component-oriented programming, see this page for details.
• In the ASCENS European Project for a robotic swarm multi-agent and emergence simulation.
• In the ID4CS French project for optimisation in collaboration with industrial partners such as Airbus and Snecma (Safran group).
• In the ORIANNE French project for automatic motor control and calibration.
• By industrial partner co-directing applied Ph.D. thesis with the SMAC Team such as Sogeti, Bnext Energy
• At the ENAC Engineering School in student projects on MAS.

Support Resources¶

Mayling-list: https://wwwsecu.irit.fr/listes/info/may-users

Who are we?¶

MAY is developed by the SMAC Team under the supervision of Jean-Paul Arcangeli.

Contributors to MAY are: V. Noël, J.-P. Arcangeli, F. Migeon
Past Contributors: A. Oglaza, K. Serin, S. Dudouit, S. Rougemaille, J.-P. Georgé