The MadKit Team



Madkit is realized with the help of a set of (human for the moment) "agents". This page is dedicated to them...

The Kernel Agents...


Olivier Gutknecht

Prime MadKit architect and developer, project coordinator

Olivier is the prime author of the MadKit platform. He completely wrote the multi-agent kernel (until version 2.x) and many parts of the host application and system agents. He embedded Scheme into MadKit, giving to the platform its first scripting language. He has coordinated the development of MadKit until version 2.x. The MadKit platform would not have existed without him... He promises he will be back soon to put his hands into the depth of MadKit...

Home page: www.lirmm.fr/~gutkneco, email: olg@madkit.org


Jacques Ferber

SEdit and Desktop designer, MadKit architect and project coordinator

Jacques is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Montpellier, France. He heads, at the LIRMM laboratory, one of the foremost research groups in Europe investigating multi-agent systems. He co-designed the MadKit model and architecture and is the primary author of SEdit, now totally integrated with MadKit. He also wrote the Desktop, many system agents, and embedded most scripting languages into MadKit. Now, he coordinates the development of MadKit and co-design the architecture of the future MadKit 4.x with Fabien.

Home page: www.lirmm.fr/~ferber, email: ferber@madkit.org


Fabien Michel

Simulation Engine architect and developper, core designer of MadKit 3.x and 4.x

Fabien designed and developed with Olivier the synchronous engine, a core component for the simulation applications in MadKit. He also redesigned the core of MadKit 3.x. and is one of the main developper of the Communicator. He is the primary author of the TurtleKit, a StarLogo-like library, and co-designed Warbot with Jacques. He is know working on generic simulation toolkit based on MadKit, and on the architecture of the new MadKit 4.x.

Home page: www.lirmm.fr/~fmichel, email: fmichel@lirmm.fr




The Application Agents...


 


Jean-Gabriel Bertrand and Omar Mohsine

Chat developpers

Jean-Gabriel and Omar have developped the Chat application during their "maitrise" project, their graduation project. This is the first MadKit application provided in the distribution which was not developped by the "kernel programmers". We hope this is just the beginning...

Email: bertrandj34@free.fr


David Pujol

Desktop2 developper

David is responsible for the development of the new desktop (called Desktop2) which makes the deployment of agents very easy. He is also the author of the Sequence Diagram observer.

Email:


Christophe Marty, Sylvain Lara, Amine Khammal, Xavier Lorca and Abdallah Wael


Share and Explorer developpers

Sylvain Lara, Christophe Marty, Khammal Amine, Xavier Lorca and Abdallah Wael, with the help of Jacques Ferber, have developped the Share and the main interface of the Explorer agent. The Share agents allows user on remote locations to share files and documents in a peer-to-peer basis. The share agent is also used as a basic component of the MadKit automatic update.The Explorer agent allows MadKit users to explore files and documents as in a standard file explorer, and to launch agents from the Desktop of MadKit 4.x.

Emails:
Christophe Marty: marty_christophe@yahoo.fr
Sylvain Lara : sly_lara@yahoo.com
Amine Khammal: mkhammal80@yahoo.fr
Xavier Lorca: xlorca@free.fr
Abdallah Wael: walou_a@yahoo.fr


Sebastian Rodriguez

NetComm developper

Sebastian has developped the NetComm plugin which is an extension and a complete rewriting of the "old" Communicator. It brings a lot of new features such as IP broadcast and its new architecture makes new extension very easy.

Email:


Oury Ba, Sébastien Daloz-De Los Rios, Jean-Marie Kendy, Pierre-Gilles Iman, David Rivet

JSynEdit developpers

Oury Ba, Sébastien Daloz-De Los Rios, Jean-Marie Kendy, Pierre-Gilles Iman, David Rivet have developped with the help of Jacques Ferber, have developped the JSynEdit plugin which is the new embedded syntax coloring editor developped from an adaptation, and transformation of the Jext editor.

Emails:
Oury Ba : ryou.ba@caramail.com
Sébastien Daloz : sebddlr@yahoo.fr
Pierre-Gilles Iman : iman972@yahoo.fr
Kendy Jean-Marie : coolruler@informaticien.com
David Rivet : davidrivet@free.fr