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Multi Agent System Development Kit

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Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

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Recent advances in the area of multi-agent technology are attracting a growing attention and interest of both scientific community and industry. This interest is stipulated, on the one hand, by the steadily increasing capabilities of multi-agent technology that offers a new paradigm and powerful means for design of large scale distributed intelligent systems, and, on the other hand, by the practical needs of industry to have a reliable and efficient technology to cope with new challenges of practice. At present, one of the most important research challenges is elaboration of powerful methodologies for agent-based systems engineering and development of efficient software tools supporting implementation and deployment of the multi-agent systems. The paper presents one of such tools, Multi-Agent System Development Kit, based on and implementing Gaia methodology that supports the complete life cycle of multi-agent system engineering, implementation and deployment, and insures the integrity of all the solutions produced by designers at different stages of the development process.

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  1. Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, 14 Line, 39, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia

    Oleg Karsaev

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  1. Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Gesamthochschule Essen, Schützenbahn 70, D-45117, Essen

    Rainer Unland

  2. Whitestein Technologies, Pestalozzistrasse 24, CH-8032, ZĂĽrich

    Monique Calisti

  3. Deduction and Multiagent Systems, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, SaarbrĂĽcken

    Matthias Klusch

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Gorodetsky, V., Karsaev, O., Samoylov, V., Konushy, V., Mankov, E., Malyshev, A. (2005). Multi Agent System Development Kit. 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_5

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