Mobile agent communication in multi-agent communities where agents come from different heterogeneous toolkits and platforms is still very much a research challenge. We propose to use the publishsubscribe model as complementary (and sometimes alternative) to proprietary or standard agent communication languages, useful particularly in the case of exchanging and disseminating short communications...

Architecture for Open Agent Platform Design1 Javier Soriano, Genoveva López, Fernando Alonso Technical University of Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain. Fax +34 913367393 {jsoriano, glopez, falonso}@fi.upm.es Abstract. A growing interest in the practical application of the autonomous agent paradigm in open and distributed environments has been observed i...

This paper describes the human immune system and its functionalities from a computational viewpoint. The objective of this paper is to provide the biological basis for an artificial immune system. This paper will also serve to illustrate how a biological system can be studied and how inferences can be drawn from its operation that can be exploited in intelligent agents. Functionalities of the b...

Due to the increasing interest to achieve high performance computing using cluster, which consists of heterogeneous workstations and/or personal computers (PCs) connected via a fast network. Usually programming such systems is done by applying message-passing libraries like MPI. Due to the lack of a load balancing facility, it is quite possible to overload machines on the network with tasks, an...

To counter difficulties of user interface (UI) development, model based techniques became firmly established over the last years. The basic idea of model based user interface development (MBUID) is to formally specify a UIs appearance and behaviour by means of several models. Especially for distributed multi-agent systems, the appliance of MBUID can be most promising. Agent applications involve...

In this paper, we present MadKit (multi-agent development kit), a generic multi-agent platform. This toolkit is based on a organizational model. It uses concepts of groups and roles for agents to manage different agent models and multi-agent systems at the same time, while keeping a global structure. We discuss the architecture of MadKit, based on a minimalist agent kernel decoupled from specif...