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Scalability in Multi-agent Systems: The FIPA-OS Perspective

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Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems

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As agent systems move out of the research laboratories towards commercial application environments it is becoming increasingly apparent that scalability issues have to be investigated. A revision of what scalability means is proposed; especially regarding its application in the description of attributes of agent systems. A new model of scalability is described, and investigated through discussing qualitative as well as quantitative issues. A case study of a current project is provided to demonstrate how measures that determine how agent scalability might eventually be measured is presented.

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  1. Emorphia Ltd., Mill House, Station Approach, Harlow Mill, Harlow, Essex, CM20 2EL, UK

    Phil Buckle, Tom Moore, Steve Robertshaw & Alan Treadway

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 26, Teollisuuskatu 23, 00014, Finland

    Sasu Tarkoma

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E4 1NS, UK

    Stefan Poslad

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  1. Cavendish School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, 9-18 Euston Centre, London, NW1 3ET, UK

    Mark d’Inverno

  2. Department of Computer Science, Southampton University, Southampton, S017 1BJ, UK

    Michael Luck

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    Michael Fisher

  4. Hewlett-Packard laboratories Bristol, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS12 6QZ, UK

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Buckle, P., Moore, T., Robertshaw, S., Treadway, A., Tarkoma, S., Poslad, S. (2002). Scalability in Multi-agent Systems: The FIPA-OS Perspective. In: d’Inverno, M., Luck, M., Fisher, M., Preist, C. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45634-1_8

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