Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable ...

t. Wagner

• 27 juni 2001
• 9783540423157

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A collection of papers on approaches that should help make deployed and large scale multi-agent systems a reality. It focuses on available infrastructure and requirements for constructing research-grade agents and multi-agent systems and support in infrastructure and software development methods.



Building research grade multi-agent systems usually involves a broad variety of software infrastructure ingredients like planning, scheduling, coordination, communication, transport, simulation, and module integration technologies and as such constitutes a great challenge to the individual researcher active in the area.
The book presents a collection of papers on approaches that will help make deployed and large scale multi-agent systems a reality. The first part focuses on available infrastructure and requirements for constructing research-grade agents and multi-agent systems. The second part deals with support in infrastructure and software development methods for multi-agent systems that can directly support coordination and management of large multi-agent communities; performance analysis and scalability techniques are needed to promote deployment of multi-agent systems to professionals in software engineering and information technology.