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This paper takes a different point of view at agent architectures, an agent tool design one. From this point of view, a generic agent architecture for embedded real-time systems is designed. More precisely, this paper identifies three levels of genericity in agent architectures. From these levels, a generic agent architecture named CIPE is designed and presented. CIPE promotes reusability, maintainability and portability, thus helping to reduce system footprint and system readiness time. Then, a generic agent development environment named GEMAS is presented; its foundation of GEMAS rests on the CIPE architecture. Applications realised with CIPE and GEMAS are also presented. The paper concludes with a discussion on the concepts and realisations and their implications.
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Brunet, CA., de Lafontaine, J., Lachiver, G. (2003). Generic Agent Architecture for Embedded Intelligent Systems. In: Truszkowski, W., Hinchey, M., Rouff, C. (eds) Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems. WRAC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2564. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45173-0_33
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