Stockwatcher agent is an agent-version of the stockwatcher application which allows users to select a set of stock quotes and check current price, trade volume, today high and low. Particularly, the agent embeds a rule-based inference engine such that it executes clips-like rules. For example, a user can write a notification rule which sends E-mail when stock values become higher or lower than a threshold.
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Main contribution of the stockwatcher agent is the agent configuration by rules, which in turn are interpreted by inference engine. Since rules can be written in a number of ways, the configurability of the agent is unlimited.
The stockwatcher agent is a multi-plane agent, having three planes: Update plane, GUI, Inference. You can check the blueprint.
It is responsible for requesting HTML pages containing stock information, parsing them, and retrieving the required information.
It provides a Graphical User Interface.
It has a state associated with a inference strategy, which reads in the rules provided by users, collects facts concerning stock values, and excutes the rules on the facts to trigger actions such as E-mail notification.
The following is a simple rule. It checks wether the dow industrial average index, given as $INDU, goes higher than 12000 points. If it does, send a notification E-mail titled, "Dow Exploding" to user@cs.purdue.edu.
(defrule email (quoteobj (quoteName "$INDU") (currentPrice ?c)) (test (> ?c 12000)) (not (sentmail "user@cs.purdue.edu")) => (assert (sentmail "user@cs.purdue.edu")) (call (fetch Model) set "MailServer" "ector.cs.purdue.edu") (call (fetch Model) set "Sender" "stockwatcher") (call (fetch Model) set "Receiver" "user@cs.purdue.edu") (call (fetch Model) set "Subject" "DOW EXPLODING!!") (call (fetch Model) set "Message" (str-cat "Current Dow is " ?c)) (call (fetch Model) set "NextState" "email"))
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