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In the 10 years since the first ATAL workshop was held, Agent and Multi-Agent Systems have been a spectacular growth area of research in Computer Science. The field has certainly developed in terms of indicators such as number of publications, conferences and workshops. A view now expressed by many in the agent research community, and others, is that agents represent the ’next big thing’ in software development and are poised to supplant object-oriented approaches. But is there any realistic prospect of this happening? Is the state-of-the-art in agents and the focus of agent research really relevant to enterprise computing? What might enterprise-ready agent technology look like? What factors would drive enterprises to invest in such solutions? This talk will attempt to analyze underlying issues and offer some answers to these questions.
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Kinny, D. (2005). Agents – The Challenge of Relevance to the IT Mainstream. In: Bordini, R.H., Dastani, M., Dix, J., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32260-3_2
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