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The existing approaches to build multi-agent systems fail at addressing the challenges posed by the current technology, where ubiquitous interconnected electronic devices are no more passive machines operated by humans but rather active computational components cooperating with humans. In order to tackle this problem, we have created a novel open-source web-based agent platform called ‘Eve’ that features some specific characteristics (e.g., platform and language independence, openness) that make it particularly suitable to be deployed in real-life applications. In this paper, we discuss the main features of Eve and present several use cases in which it has been successfully applied.
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Stellingwerff, L., de Jong, J., Pazienza, G.E. (2014). Practical Applications of the Web-Based Agent Platform ‘Eve’. In: Demazeau, Y., Zambonelli, F., Corchado, J.M., Bajo, J. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07551-8_23
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