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This chapter presents and discusses the Living Systems Technology Suite, LS/TS, a solution for the development and deployment of products and systems based on software agent technology and autonomic computing. LS/TS comprises a software development methodology and a Java-based agent platform with development tools. The focus of this paper is on the LS/TS agent platform: the concepts, API and development tools that support the design and implementation of multi-agent systems are described and discussed. This chapter also lists a few significant challenges that a middleware for multi-agent systems has to face, and also shows how each one of them is addressed by the LS/TS agent platform.
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Rimassa, G., Calisti, M., Kernland, M.E. (2005). Living Systems® Technology Suite. In: Unland, R., Calisti, M., Klusch, M. (eds) Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7348-2_4
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