Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
ZEUS: a toolkit and approach for building distributed multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
Configuration management for multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Uml and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Uml and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Management issues for distributed services
SDNE '95 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments
The role of roles in designing effective agent organizations
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
A lightweight infrastructure for reconfiguring applications
SCM'01/SCM'03 Proceedings of the 2001 ICSE Workshops on SCM 2001, and SCM 2003 conference on Software configuration management
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Breaking into industry: tool support for multiagent systems
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Providing Integrated Development Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
MATES '08 Proceedings of the 6th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
Consideration on MAS as a basis for distributed modeling of urban traffic simulation
ICCOMP'10 Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS international conference on Computers: part of the 14th WSEAS CSCC multiconference - Volume I
Jadexcloud - an infrastructure for enterprise cloud applications
MATES'11 Proceedings of the 9th German conference on Multiagent system technologies
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The agent metaphor has shown its usefulness for modelling as well as implementing complex and dynamic applications. Although a number of agent applications has been successfully realised and used, it must be stated that the distribution of commercial off-the-shelf applications is very scarce. For this discontenting situation, at least two reasons can be identified. On the one hand, the development of agent-based applications is difficult suffering from insufficient standards and tools and on the other hand deployment issues are little researched and supported. In this paper, several deployment-related topics are discussed and a vision for the deployment of distributed multi-agent systems is conceived. From the vision, requirements for launching and configuring agent applications are derived. According to these requirements, a platform independent reference model of the proposed deployment infrastructure is presented. The reference model provides the basis for the development of our ASCML (Agent Society Configuration Manager and Launcher) tool, which is currently implemented for the JADE and Jadex multi-agent platforms.