README.md

3apl-interpreter

An implementation of interpreter for 3APL (an agent-oriented programming language), language specification available at: http://www.cs.uu.nl/3apl/

Overview

• This project is developed as my dissertation for bachelor's degree at University of Nottingham.
• This interpreter comes with a GUI which supports creating, running and interacting with multi-agent systems.
• It also supports customizing graphical agent environments.

Development/Runtime Environment

• JDK11 with JavaFx module installed.

Getting Started

1. Compile and package this project into a executable jar file, TripleAPL_interpreter is the main class.
2. Run java -jar 3apl.jar

• For loading 3APL programs, read user manual.
• For writing 3APL programs, check the example codes available in /src/TripleAPL/, read dissertation and language specification.

Credits

• The parser is developed using JavaCC.
• tuProlog is used for Prolog inference.