Abstract
During the evolution of the agent-oriented software engineering area, many tools were developed. These range from application programming interfaces (APIs) for developing agent and multi-agent applications, to platforms that provide the infrastructure for the development, testing, execution, monitoring, and maintaining agent-based applications. In early days there was a proliferation of such tools; however, nowadays, only a limited number of tools have kept on evolving and are being used. Moreover, it seems that most development of such tools occurred in the academia and only a few were devised and are being used within the industry. The challenges in developing such tools include the provisioning of a comprehensive suite to address both the development and the deployment of multi-agent systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Agent-Oriented Software Engineering |
| Subtitle of host publication | Reflections on Architectures, Methodologies, Languages, and Frameworks |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Pages | 275-288 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783642544323 |
| ISBN (Print) | 3642544312, 9783642544316 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Feb 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Multi-agent framework
- Multi-agent infrastructure
- Multi-agent middleware
- Multi-agent platform