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Breaking into industry: tool support for multiagent systems

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AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

May 2007

Article No.: 136, Pages 1 - 3

https://doi.org/10.1145/1329125.1329292

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Multiagent systems (MAS) research is well established yet there is little development of agent technology in industry. It has been suggested that this is due, in part, to the unavailability of support tools for Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). This paper suggests requirements for Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to support MAS construction. We suggest that an IDE can be built as its own MAS which allows it to be decoupled from any particular agent framework thereby allowing it to be platform independent.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2539150.2539261
Lynch SRajendran K(2008)Providing Integrated Development Environments for Multi-Agent SystemsProceedings of the 6th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_12(123-134)Online publication date: 23-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_12

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Breaking into industry: tool support for multiagent systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems

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AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

May 2007

1585 pages

ISBN:9788190426275

DOI:10.1145/1329125

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University of Michigan
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University of South Carolina
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Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

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Higashino MOsaki SOtagaki STakahashi KKawamura TSugahara KWeippl EIndrawan-Santiago MSteinbauer MKotsis GKhalil I(2013)Debugging Mobile Agent SystemsProceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/2539150.2539261(667-670)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2539150.2539261
Lynch SRajendran K(2008)Providing Integrated Development Environments for Multi-Agent SystemsProceedings of the 6th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_12(123-134)Online publication date: 23-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_12

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