A Framework for Developing Agent-Based Distributed Applications

Author

Oey, Michel ; Van Splunter, Sander ; Ogston, Elth ; Warnier, Martijn ; Brazier, Frances M T

Author_Institution

Fac. of Technol., Policy & Manage., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 3 2010

Firstpage

470

Lastpage

474

Abstract

The development of large-scale distributed multi-agent systems in open dynamic environments is a challenge. System behavior is often not predictable and can only be evaluated by execution. This paper proposes a framework to support design and development of such systems: a framework in which both simulation and emulation play an important role. A distributed agent platform (AgentScape) is used to illustrate the potential of the framework.

Keywords

distributed processing; multi-agent systems; AgentScape; agent-based distributed applications; distributed agent platform; large-scale distributed multiagent systems; open dynamic environments; system behavior; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Debugging; Emulation; Message systems; Multiagent systems; Runtime environment; agent-based simulation; development; distributed systems; emulation; multi-agent systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8482-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4191-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.134

Filename

5614699