Supporting internet-scale multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • N. J. E. Wijngaards;B. J. Overeinder;M. van Steen;F. M. T. Brazier

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering - DKE 40
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The Internet provides a large-scale environment for (intelligent) software agents. Agents are autonomous (mobile) processes, capable of communication with other agents, interaction with the world, and adaptation to changes in their environment. Current approaches to support agents are not geared for large-scale settings. The near future holds thousands of agents, hosts, messages, and migratory movements of agents. These large-scale aspects require a new approach to facilitate the development of agent applications and support. AgentScape is a scalable agent-based distributed system, described in this paper, that aims at tackling these aspects.