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Beyond Prototyping in the Factory of Agents

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III (CEEMAS 2003)

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This paper introduces Agent Factory, a cohesive framework supporting a structured approach to the development and deployment of agent-oriented applications. We describe Agent Factory together with an accompanying agent development methodology. We detail the key attributes of Agent Factory, namely: visual design, design reuse, behaviour enactment, migration, and ubiquity. Agent Factory functionality is exercised by way of a case study. We offer cross comparison of our system with exemplar agent prototyping environments.

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  1. University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Rem Collier, Gregory O’Hare, Terry Lowen & Colm Rooney

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, 16627, Praha 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík  & Michal Pěchouček  & 

  2. Siemens AG, CT, IC 6, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730, München, Germany

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Collier, R., O’Hare, G., Lowen, T., Rooney, C. (2003). Beyond Prototyping in the Factory of Agents. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_37

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