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

International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2000 Revised Papers

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Tom Wagner

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, Orono, USA

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  2. Omer F. Rana

    1. Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1887)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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