ad4m-executor-test

AD4M Executor (= run-time)

What's AD4M?

AD4M (Agent-Centric Distributed Application Meta-Ontology) is an abstract interface definition that tries to distill the quintessence of agent-centric software architecture such that applications can choose to become interoprable by building components congruent to this interface. It introduces a simple and powerful ontology consisting of three entities

1. Agent (=user/human)
2. Language (=space of expressions / combining storage and UI on an abstract level)
3. Perspective (=what an agent perceives / spaces of links (triplets) between expressions)

See the AD4M repository for a more detailed description as well as TypeScript classes and interfaces.

Why a Node.js Executor For AD4M?

Using this as the local back-end / middleware, all that's left to do in order to build an AD4M based / compatible application is writing a UI that connects to this AD4M executor via it's GraphQL interface and potentially adding custom AD4M Languages. See Perspect3ve for a working example.

So this package can be used for starting an AD4M node.js runtime.

main.js will listen for calls from the host on the event init. Upon receiving this event it will spawn the AD4M runtime; this runtime is interfaced with and managed via a locally running graphql server. Information on the topology of this server can be found here.

More information about the AD4M ontology and scope can be found here.

Building

npm i
npm run build