The ecology of computation
Distributed directory service and message routing for mobile agents
Science of Computer Programming
Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
Eos — An Evolutionary and Ecosystem Research Platform
BT Technology Journal
Distributed Intelligent Agents
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
IEEE Internet Computing
Agents of Change in Business Process Management
Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence, Concepts and Applications
Visualisation and Debugging of Decentralised Information Ecosystems
Revised Lectures on Software Visualization, International Seminar
Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A perspective on software agents research
The Knowledge Engineering Review
DIET — A Scalable, Robust and Adaptable Multi-Agent Platform for Information Management
BT Technology Journal
Using ECA rules to implement mobile query agents for fast-evolving pure P2P database systems
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile data management
A distributed implementation of the SWAN peer-to-peer look-up system using mobile agents
AP2PC'02 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Agents and peer-to-peer computing
Evolving preferences among emergent groups of agents
Adaptive agents and multi-agent systems
Revealing bullying patterns in multi-agent systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Autonomous agents and multi –agent systems (AAMAS) for the military – issues and challenges
DAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
Scalable middleware environment for agent-based internet applications
PARA'04 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Applied Parallel Computing: state of the Art in Scientific Computing
A classification framework of adaptation in multi-agent systems
CIA'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cooperative Information Agents
Self-organising applications using lightweight agents
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
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Mobile Agent systems have attracted considerable attention as means of exploring and manipulating distributed information sources. However, many existing multi-agent platforms present limitations in terms of adaptability and scalability, indicating difficulties when trying to replicate these results on a large scale. We describe the core of a novel mobile agent toolkit known as DIET, (Decentralised Information Ecosystem Technologies), which addresses some of these limitations and provides a foundation for an open, robust, adaptive and scalable agent ecosystem. We introduce DIET core features and describe how they support basic mobile agent capabilities such as migration and real-time interaction. We then illustrate how an ecosystem-inspired design approach differs from conventional design approaches. Finally, we experiment with a simple information retrieval scenario, demonstrating the emergence of agent communities through the evolution of environmental preferences. In this way we hope to clarify how applications built on this foundation could be used to tackle problems in adaptable and open real-world scenarios.