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Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components

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Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2002)

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Using software agents as next generation flexible components and applying reuse technologies to rapidly construct agents and agent systems have great promise to improve application and system construction. Whether built on conventional distributed computing and application management platforms, on a specialized agent platform, on web service technology or within a P2P infrastructure, agents are a good match for independent development, for scalable and robust systems and dynamic evolution of features, and for autonomic self-managing systems. In this paper we describe the vision and progress we have made towards developing a robust infrastructure, methods, and tools for this goal.

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  1. Computer Science Department 349BE, University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA

    Martin L. Griss

  2. School of Computing, University of Utah, 50 S. Central Campus Dr. #3190, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Robert R. Kessler

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  1. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Ed. Pe. Leonel Franca, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Alessandro Garcia  & Carlos Lucena  & 

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 13, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS), Università di Bologna, Via Rasi e Spinelli, 176, 47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

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  4. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Luiz Freire S/N, 50732-970, Recife PE, Brazil

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Griss, M.L., Kessler, R.R. (2003). Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components. In: Garcia, A., Lucena, C., Zambonelli, F., Omicini, A., Castro, J. (eds) Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems. SELMAS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35828-5_9

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