Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
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
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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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
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saabr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Tom Wagner University of Maine, Department of Computer Science 228 Neville Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5752, USA E-mail: [email protected] Omer F. Rana Cardiff University, Department of Computer Science Queen’s Building, Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 3XF, Wales, UK E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Infrastructure for agents, multi-agent systems, and scalable multi-agent systems : revised papers / International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, June 3 - 7, 2000. Tom Wagner ; Omer Rana (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2001 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 1887 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-42315-X
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Preface Building research grade multi-agent systems requires a large amount of software infrastructure. Many systems require planning, scheduling, coordination, communication, transport, simulation, and module integration technologies and often the research interest pertains to only a portion of the technology or to aggregate system performance. To advance scientific progress, we, as a community, need to share this infrastructure wherever possible – reuse in this context may enable more researchers to build functioning experimental systems and to test their theoretical ideas in actual software environments. When these research ideas are
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