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Agent-based approaches are becoming more and more mature for applications distributed over large networks, such as the Internet. Although the types of applications vary greatly, ranging from information retrieval to electronic commerce, all these systems can be supported by a common infrastructure provided by generic agent development environments. In this chapter, we describe the MECCA system (Multi-agent Environment for Constructing Cooperative Applications), a class library written in Java which supports the high-level implementation of agent systems. Implementing the FIPA inter-agent communication and agent management standards, MECCA allows for inter-operability among agents of different architectures, coded by different providers.
This author’s work has been funded in part by Siemens AG, Germany.
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Gerber, C., Bauer, B., Steiner, D. (1999). Resource Adaptation for a Scalable Agent Society in the MoTiV-PTA Domain. In: Hayzelden, A.L.G., Bigham, J. (eds) Software Agents for Future Communication Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58418-3_7
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