TY - JOUR
T1 - Supporting Internet-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
AU - Wijngaards, N.J.E.
AU - Overeinder, B.J.
AU - van Steen, M.R.
AU - Brazier, F.M.
N1 - Wijngaards.ea:02
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The Internet provides a large-scale environment for (intelligent) software agents. Agents are autonomous (mobile) processes, capable of communication with other agents, interaction with the world, and adaptation to changes in their environment. Current approaches to support agents are not geared for large-scale settings. The near future holds thousands of agents, hosts, messages, and migratory movements of agents. These large-scale aspects require a new approach to facilitate the development of agent applications and support. AgentScape is a scalable agent-based distributed system, described in this paper, that aims at tackling these aspects. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - The Internet provides a large-scale environment for (intelligent) software agents. Agents are autonomous (mobile) processes, capable of communication with other agents, interaction with the world, and adaptation to changes in their environment. Current approaches to support agents are not geared for large-scale settings. The near future holds thousands of agents, hosts, messages, and migratory movements of agents. These large-scale aspects require a new approach to facilitate the development of agent applications and support. AgentScape is a scalable agent-based distributed system, described in this paper, that aims at tackling these aspects. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
U2 - 10.1016/S0169-023X(02)00042-3
DO - 10.1016/S0169-023X(02)00042-3
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 229
EP - 245
JO - Data and Knowledge Engineering
JF - Data and Knowledge Engineering
SN - 0169-023X
IS - 2-3
ER -
