Agentcities: Challenges and Deployment of Next- Generation Service Environments

This paper describes how the Agentcities initiative is being used to develop a rich and dynamic service environment in which user and business tasks can be achieved through ad-hoc service interactions. We present the goals and aims of Agentcities and also detail the development of the Agentcities Network to date. We also describe the future challenges of open, heterogeneous environments and how Agentcities has addressed some of these problems.