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• JACK®
  • JACK Sales FAQ
    • How do I buy JACK?
    • How much does JACK cost?
    • Is a JACK licence required to run JACK applications?
  • Documentation and Instructional Material
    • JACK Documentation
    • JACK Programming FAQ
      • Why do I need to give you my email address?
      • I didn't get my password sent to me? Why this?!
      • Do I need Java on my computer?
      • Do you provide any examples?
      • Do you provide any examples using the JACK Development Environment?
      • Do you provide any documentation?
      • My Windows computer tells me that "Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion' has value xxx, but yyy is required". What should I do?
      • The JACK™ Compiler tells me "** couldn't execute **". What does this mean?
      • I get the message "New Executor spawned due to mis-behaving agent". What's going on?
      • My JACK™ program just hangs and does nothing.
      • Why doesn't my JACK™ program exit?
      • How are plans scheduled and how many threads does JACK™ use itself?
      • I get strange compilation errors but if I clean up first everything is ok. Why is that?
    • Installation FAQ
      • I filled in the registration form. Where is my password?
      • Why doesn't the installation work properly on Windows Server 2003?
      • When I try to install I get "Magic number did not match"
      • Can JACK be installed on mobile or real-time operating systems?
    • Agent Concepts and Techniques FAQ
      • What is BDI?
      • What are "Capabilities"?
      • How do I integrate JACK™ agents with legacy applications?
      • What reasoning models does JACK™ support?
      • What communication protocols does JACK™ use?
      • How do I write distributed agent applications in JACK?
      • How efficient are JACK™ agents?
    • Installation Process
    • JACK Release Notes
    • Academic Licensing Policy
    • Technical Requirements
      • Development Requirements
      • Execution Requirements
• JACKTeams™
• C-BDI™
• CoJACK™
  • Download CoJACK
• JAE-Box™
• Surveillance Agent™

Applications

• ISR Broker™
• Rules of Engagement
• Oil Trading and Operations
• BRAILLE
• Intelligent PHM
• Human Behaviour Representation

Services

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News

• Farnborough Air Show, 2008
• JACK Courses
• Best Paper – BRIMS 2007
• AOS - a Founding Partner in ASTRAEA
• AOS Joins CMU's Red Team for DARPA Grand Challenge
• AOS a Winner in Prestigious UK Trade & Investment International Business Awards
• First Flight — True UAV Autonomy At Last
• Robocup 2001, Robot Soccer Competition, JACK Plays Football

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• JACK User Group
• General Enquiry
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Autonomy and Agents

• Autonomous Systems
  • Automation
  • Autonomy
  • Constructing Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Software Systems
• Agent Technology
  • The Challenge of Software Complexity
  • A Real-World Example of Complexity
    • Runway Chaos
    • Holding Aircraft
    • Where is the Complexity?
    • Too Much Interaction and Complexity Leads to a Need for Delegation
    • Using Standard Software Approaches is Extremely Unwieldy
    • JACK Agents Inherently Reduce Complexity
  • What are Software Agents?
  • But are Software Agents for Me?
  • AOS – Provides the World's Leading Agent Tools

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