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A framework for supporting agent programming systems, called AgentSpace, is proposed in this paper. Our goal is to define an abstract and generic world of agents that is a super-set of research and industrial proposals currently being developed. There are mainly two novelties in this paper. First, we argue that real-world complex agent-based applications span through three levels: framework, programming system and application level itself. The second novelty is that, unlike many other proposals, our programming model focus on heterogeneous multi-agent applications.
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Silva, A., da Silva, M.M., Delgado, J. (1997). Motivation and requirements for the AgentSpace: A framework for developing agent programming systems. In: Mullery, A., Besson, M., Campolargo, M., Gobbi, R., Reed, R. (eds) Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Cooperative Competition. IS&N 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1238. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63135-6_17
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