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Distributed Shared Agent Representations

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications II (ACAI 2001)

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The external representation of an agent is (part of) the embodiment of an agent: other agents may observe this information. The public representation of an agent usually contains at least the identity of an agent, and may include profiles of the agent, profiles of the user of an agent, an avatar, etc. In large-scale agent systems, scalability is an important issue. Replication is a scaling technique for distributing information over a number of locations. Replication of the external representation of an agent results in distributed shared agent representations. This paper addresses a number of issues involved in the realisation of such distributed shared agent representations, and briefly discusses middleware that is being devised to support such developments.

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  1. Faculty of Sciences Department of Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frances Brazier & Niek Wijngaards

  2. Faculty of Sciences Department of Computer Science, Computer Systems Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maarten van Steen

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík , Olga Štěpánková  & Hana Krautwurmová ,  & 

  2. Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague, Americka 22, 120 00, Prague 2, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

  3. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

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Brazier, F., van Steen, M., Wijngaards, N. (2002). Distributed Shared Agent Representations. In: Mařík, V., Štěpánková, O., Krautwurmová, H., Luck, M. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications II. ACAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45982-0_14

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