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

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Infrastructure and Requirements for Building Research-Grade Multi-Agent Systems

   1. MAS Infrastructure Definitions, Needs, and Prospects

      • Les Gasser

      Pages 1-11

   2. Tools for Developing and Monitoring Agents in Distributed Multi-agent Systems

      • John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Foster McGeary, M. Victoria Windley, David Cleaver et al.

      Pages 12-27

   3. Agora: An Infrastructure for Cooperative Work Support in Multi-Agent Systems

      • Mihhail Matskin, Ole Jørgen Kirkeluten, Svenn Bjarte Krossnes, Øystein Sæle

      Pages 28-40

   4. Sensible Agent Testbed Infrastructure for Experimentation

      • K. S. Barber, D. N. Lam, C. E. Martin, R. M. McKay

      Pages 41-47

   5. The MadKit Agent Platform Architecture

      • Olivier Gutknecht, Jacques Ferber

      Pages 48-55

   6. An Architecture for Modeling Internet-based Collaborative Agent Systems

      • Roberto A. Flores, Rob C. Kremer, Douglas H. Norrie

      Pages 56-63

   7. Frameworks for Reasoning about Agent Based System

      • Leon J. Osterweil, Lori A. Clarke

      Pages 64-71

   8. Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture

      • XiaoQin Zhang, Anita Raja, Barbara Lerner, Victor Lesser, Leon Osterweil, Thomas Wagner

      Pages 72-79

   9. Adaptive Infrastructures for Agent Integration

      • David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe, Gal A. Kaminka

      Pages 80-93

   10. RoboCup Soccer Server and CMUnited: Implemented Infrastructure for MAS Research

       • Itsuki Noda, Peter Stone

       Pages 94-101

   11. An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator

       • Regis Vincent, Bryan Horling, Victor Lesser

       Pages 102-127

   12. Design-to-Criteria Scheduling: Real-Time Agent Control

       • Thomas Wagner, Victor Lesser

       Pages 128-143

   13. Integrating Conversational Interaction and Constraint Based Reasoning in an Agent Building Shell

       • Mihai Barbuceanu, Wai-Kau Lo

       Pages 144-156

   14. An Enabling Environment for Engineering Cooperative Agents

       • Soe-Tsyr Yuan

       Pages 157-165

   15. Agent Mobility and Reification of Computational State: An Experiment in Migration

       • Werner Van Belle, Theo D’Hondt

       Pages 166-173

   16. As Strong as Possible Agent Mobility

       • Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon, Simon Dobson

       Pages 174-176

   17. An Architecture for Adaptive Web Stores

       • Giovanna Petrone

       Pages 177-179

3. Performance Issues and Infrastructure Scalability in Building Multi-Agent Systems

   1. A Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile Agent Systems

      • Marios D. Dikaiakos, George Samaras

      Pages 180-187

   2. A Layered Agent Template for Enterprise Computing

      • Carmen M. Pancerella, Nina M. Berry

      Pages 188-191

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.

• Agent Coordination
• Agent Systems Design
• Agent Systems Engineering
• Agent Systems Performance
• Agent-Based Systems
• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
• Autonomous Agents
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Multi-agent system
• Scala
• Scalable Agent Systems
• agents
• communication
• simulation
• software engineering

• Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, Orono, USA

  Tom Wagner

• Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

  Omer F. Rana

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