Agent Building and Learning Environment (ABLE)

ABLE publications

• The paper ABLE: A toolkit for building multiagent autonomic systems (IBM Systems Journal, Volume 41, Number 3, 2002) describes ABLE's architecture and JavaBean component design.
  
  
• The article Features and Facets of ABLE (developerWorks, October 2004) provides an introduction to ABLE.
  
  
• The article Adding Rules to Applications (developerWorks, February 2005) shows how to write and run simple business rules or complex inferencing rules, ARL’s syntax and capabilities, how to work with Java™ objects from ARL, how to write and debug rules in Eclipse, how to run rulesets from Java applications, demonstrates procedural and inferencing rule engines, and shows the benefits of using rules written for inferencing rule engines.
  
  
• The paper Managing Web server Performance with Autotune Agents (IBM Systems Journal, Volume 42, Number 1, 2003) describes using ABLE agents in performance management.
  
  
• The article Use Autonomic Computing for Problem Determination (developerWorks, July 2004) describes using ABLE rules with the Autonomic Management Engine.
  
  
• The article ETTK Self-healing and Optimizing Demo (developerWorks, July 2003) uses ABLE as the heart of its MAPE loop (Monitor, analyze, plan, execute).
  
  
• The book Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java: Professional Developer's Guide (John Wiley & Sons, 2001, second edition, Bigus, J.P. and Bigus, J.) provides background on the ABLE project and describes many uses of intelligent agents with example Java code.
  
  

• The article Getting started with the Eclipse Platform (developerWorks, November 2002) provides a history and overview of Eclipse, including details on how to install Eclipse and plug-ins.
  
  
• The document IBM response to the Business Rules in Models RFI from OMG describes IBM business rules technologies in response to a request for information on business rule models posed by the Object Management Group.
  
  

Please contact the development team by eMail at ableinfo@us.ibm.com.