A Survey of Programming Languages and Platforms for Multi-Agent Systems

Rafael H. Bordini; Lars Braubach; Mehdi Dastani; Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni; Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz; João Leite; Gregory O’Hare; Alexander Pokahr; Alessandro Ricci

A Survey of Programming Languages and Platforms for Multi-Agent Systems

Rafael H. Bordini, Lars Braubach, Mehdi Dastani, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, João Leite, Gregory O’Hare, Alexander Pokahr, Alessandro Ricci

Informatica 30(1), pages 33–44

January 2006

This paper surveys recent research on programming languages and development tools for Multi-Agent Systems. It starts by addressing programming languages (declarative, imperative, and hybrid), followed by integrated development environments, and finally platforms and frameworks. To illustrate each of these categories, some systems were chosen based on the extent to which European researchers have contributed to their development. The current state of these systems is described and, in some cases, indications of future directions of research are given.

keywords Multi-Agent Systems, Programming Languages, Platforms

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Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research II”

AL3-TF2

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Informatica (Informatica)

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Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research II” (special issue, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

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The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research – Part 2 (editorial/introduction/preface, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

Issues in Multiagent Resource Allocation (article in journal, 2006) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Michel Lemaître, Nicolas Maudet, Julian A. Padget, Steve Phelps, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Paulo Sousa

Self-Organisation and Emergence in MAS: An Overview (article in journal, 2006) — Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos

Bio-inspired Mechanisms for Artificial Self-organised Systems (article in journal, 2006) — Jean-Pierre Mano, Christine Bourjot, Gabriel Lopardo, Pierre Glize

On Self-Organising Mechanisms from Social, Business and Economic Domains (article in journal, 2006) — Salima Hassas, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Anthony Karageorgos, Cristiano Castelfranchi

Applications of Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems: An Initial Framework for Comparison (article in journal, 2006) — Carole Bernon, Vincent Chevrier, Vincent Hilaire, Paul Marrow

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AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)

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