Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems

Infrastructure and Requirements for Building Research-Grade Multi-Agent Systems.- MAS Infrastructure Definitions, Needs, and Prospects.- Tools for Developing and Monitoring Agents in Distributed Multi-agent Systems.- Agora: An Infrastructure for Cooperative Work Support in Multi-Agent Systems.- Sensible Agent Testbed Infrastructure for Experimentation.- The MadKit Agent Platform Architecture.- An Architecture for Modeling Internet-based Collaborative Agent Systems.- Frameworks for Reasoning about Agent Based System.- Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture.- Adaptive Infrastructures for Agent Integration.- RoboCup Soccer Server and CMUnited: Implemented Infrastructure for MAS Research.- An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator.- Design-to-Criteria Scheduling: Real-Time Agent Control.- Integrating Conversational Interaction and Constraint Based Reasoning in an Agent Building Shell.- An Enabling Environment for Engineering Cooperative Agents.- Agent Mobility and Reification of Computational State: An Experiment in Migration.- As Strong as Possible Agent Mobility.- An Architecture for Adaptive Web Stores.- Performance Issues and Infrastructure Scalability in Building Multi-Agent Systems.- A Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile Agent Systems.- A Layered Agent Template for Enterprise Computing.- A Community of Agents for User Support in a Problem-Solving Environment.- Scalable Mobile Agents Supporting Dynamic Composition of Functionality.- A Formal Development and Validation Methodology Applied to Agent-Based Systems.- A Proposal for Meta-learning through a MAS (Multi-agent System).- Scalability Metrics and Analysis of Mobile Agent Systems.- Improving the Scalability of Multi-agent Systems.- Mobile Agents for Distributed Processing.- Scalability of a Transactional Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems.- Towards a Scalable Architecture for Knowledge Fusion.- Towards Validation of Specifications by Simulation.- Open Source, Standards and Scaleable Agencies.- Infrastructure Issues and Themes for Scalable Multi-agent Systems.

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