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A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Web-Based Software Agents

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Computational Collective Intelligence

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 9329))

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In recent years, the web has become an important software platform, with more and more applications becoming purely web-based. The agent technology needs to embrace these trends in order to remain relevant in the new era. In this paper, we present recent developments of our web-based multiagent middleware named Siebog. Siebog employs enterprise technologies on the server side in order to provide automatic agent load-balancing and fault-tolerance. On the client, it relies on HTML5 and related standards in order to run on a wide variety of hardware and software platforms. Now, with automatic clustering and state persistence, Siebog can support thousands of external devices hosting tens of thousands of client-side agents.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Dejan Mitrović, Mirjana Ivanović & Zoran Budimac

  2. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Milan Vidaković

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  3. Computer Science Department, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Mitrović, D., Ivanović, M., Vidaković, M., Budimac, Z. (2015). A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Web-Based Software Agents. In: Núñez, M., Nguyen, N., Camacho, D., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9329. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24069-5_7

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