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Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications (ACAI 2001)

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This chapter has two parts. In Part I, we present an overview of issues in modeling Multi Agent Systems (MAS), discuss what features and components are required for a MAS infrastructure, and present a model of a generic infrastructure. In addition, we present RETSINA as an example of an implemented MAS infrastructure. In Part II, we present issues in agent and service discovery and interoperation through a set of domain independent active and intelligent registries, called middle agents.

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Sycara, K. (2001). Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation. In: Luck, M., Mařík, V., Štěpánková, O., Trappl, R. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications. ACAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2086. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47745-4_2

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