%0 Journal Article %T Aspect-Oriented Approach to Implement Message Handler in Multi-agent Systems %A Aleksis Liekna %A J¨ˇnis Grundspe is %J Scientific Journal of Riga Technical University. Computer Sciences %D 2011 %I %R 10.2478/v10143-011-0020-7 %X This paper focuses on message handling in multi-agent systems. The proposed approach uses aspect-oriented programming to separate message handling from other agent concerns, thus increasing system's modularity and simplifying modification and expansion. To illustrate the proposed approach in practice, a prototype of a simple knowledge base agent model is implemented. The prototype is built on top of JADE platform. AspectJ is used for aspect-oriented implementation. %K AspectJ %K Aspect-Oriented Programming %K JADE %K Message Handling %K Multi-Agent Systems %U http://versita.metapress.com/content/e780384401j21505/?p=e290bc41ebf24a54b2566a6ee0f01fb7&pi=3