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A Practical Method for Developing Multi Agent Systems: APMDMAS

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Intelligent Distributed Computing V

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While Multi Agent Systems (MAS) attracted a great deal of attention in the field of software engineering, with its promises of capturing complex systems, they remain far away from commercial popularity mainly due to the lack of a MAS methodology that is accessible for commercial developers. In this paper we present a practical method for developing MAS that we believe will enable not only software developers but also business people beyond the academic community to design and develop MAS easily.

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  1. University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Emad Eldeen Elakehal & Julian Padget

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  1. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Intelligent Interactive Dynamic Systems, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    F. M. T. Brazier

  2. D-CIS lab, P.O. Box 90, 2600 AB, Delft, The Netherlands

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  3. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    Martijn Warnier

  4. Faculty of Automatics, Computers and Electronics, Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Bvd. Decebal Nr. 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania

    Costin Badica

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Elakehal, E.E., Padget, J. (2011). A Practical Method for Developing Multi Agent Systems: APMDMAS. In: Brazier, F.M.T., Nieuwenhuis, K., Pavlin, G., Warnier, M., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing V. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24013-3_3

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