Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent platforms and toolkits.

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The JADE Platform and Experiences with Mobile MAS Applications.- A-globe: Agent Development Platform with Inaccessibility and Mobility Support.- Supporting Agent Development in Erlang through the eXAT Platform.- Living Systems® Technology Suite.- Multi Agent System Development Kit.- An Integrated Development Environment for Electronic Institutions.- Jadex: A BDI-Agent System Combining Middleware and Reasoning.- Component Agent Framework for Non-Experts (CAFnE) Toolkit.- The WSDL2Agent Tool.- WS2JADE: A Tool for Run-time Deployment and Control of Web Services as JADE Agent Services.- A System for Analysis of Multi-Issue Negotiation.- FuzzyMAN: An Agent-based E-Marketplace with a Voice and Mobile User Interface.- Efficient Agent Communication in Wireless Environments.- AMETAS the Asynchronous MEssage Transfer Agent System.- Tracy: An Extensible Plugin-Oriented Software Architecture for Mobile Agent Toolkits.- The Packet-World: A Test Bed for Investigating Situated Multi-Agent Systems.- Decommitment in a Competitive Multi-Agent Transportation Setting.- TeamWorker: An Agent-Based Support System for Mobile Task Execution.