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During the evolution of the agent-oriented software engineering area, many tools were developed. These range from application programming interfaces (APIs) for developing agent and multi-agent applications, to platforms that provide the infrastructure for the development, testing, execution, monitoring, and maintaining agent-based applications. In early days there was a proliferation of such tools; however, nowadays, only a limited number of tools have kept on evolving and are being used. Moreover, it seems that most development of such tools occurred in the academia and only a few were devised and are being used within the industry. The challenges in developing such tools include the provisioning of a comprehensive suite to address both the development and the deployment of multi-agent systems.
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Sturm, A., Shehory, O. (2014). The Evolution of MAS Tools. In: Shehory, O., Sturm, A. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54432-3_14
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