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Remote Deployment of a JADE Agent in Docker

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2023)

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This work presents a technical introduction into the implementation process of a containerized multi-agent system. More specifically, the JADE framework is used as a middleware for the development of software agents. With the goal of achieving high modularity and enhancing usability, the system will be containerized in Docker. To model an application-oriented scenario, the containerized agent-system is deployed on a headless remote server. The goal of this paper is to provide a comprehensive solution to help overcome the technical difficulties encountered in accessing the graphical user interface of agents from an end device. A procedural guide to the implementation process is provided, including the preparation of the JADE-based multi-agent system, creation of Docker containers, and deployment of the containerized multi-agent system on a remote server.

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Osnabrück, Germany

    Dennis Maecker, Henning Gösling & Oliver Thomas

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  1. University of St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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  2. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Mehdi Dastani

  3. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Jieting Luo

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Maecker, D., Gösling, H., Thomas, O. (2023). Remote Deployment of a JADE Agent in Docker. In: Ciortea, A., Dastani, M., Luo, J. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14378. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48539-8_18

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