Towards Seamless Agent Middleware

Andrea Omicini, Giovanni Rimassa

13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE 2004), pages 417-422
14-16 June 2004
IEEE CS, 2nd International Workshop "Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems" (TAPOCS 2004), Modena, Italy
Giacomo Cabri, Y.V. Ramana Reddy, Sumitra Reddy (eds.)
Proceedings

This paper describes the current evolution of agent middleware, supporting and promoting an autonomous agent component model. We first assess the current state of agent technology, then we make a case for increased integration between agents and their environment, composed by entities with different models. We notice that this integration trend emerged more and more in the last few years, but there are still important issues to be tackled and solved. Examples drawn from our experience with concrete agent infrastructures such as JADE are used to ground the discussion.

@inproceedings{agentmiddleware-wetice2004,
Address = {2nd International Workshop ``Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems'' (TAPOCS 2004), Modena, Italy},
Author = {Omicini, Andrea and Rimassa, Giovanni},
Booktitle = {13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET~ICE 2004)},
Doi = {10.1109/ENABL.2004.73},
Editor = {Cabri, Giacomo and Reddy, Y.V. Ramana and Reddy, Sumitra},
IeeeNo = {1376870},
Isbn = {0-7695-2183-5},
Issn = {1524-4547},
Month = {14--16~} # jun,
Note = {Proceedings},
Pages = {417--422},
Pdf-Url = {http://csdl.computer.org/dl/proceedings/wetice/2004/2183/00/21830417.pdf},
Publisher = {IEEE CS},
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Title = {Towards Seamless Agent Middleware},
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