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Abstractions and Infrastructures for the Design and Development of Mobile Agent Organizations

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II (AOSE 2001)

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Internet applications can take advantage of a paradigm based on autonomous and mobile agents. However, suitable abstractions and infrastructures are required for the effective engineering of such applications. In this paper, we argue that a conceptual framework for context-dependent coordination, supported by an infrastructure based on programmable media, can promote a modular and easy to manage approach to the design and development of mobile agent applications in terms of computational organizations. The MARS coordination infrastructure is presented as an implementation of a coordination infrastructure promoting context-dependent coordination. A case study in the area of workflow management is introduced to clarify the concepts presented.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese, 905, 41100, Modena, ITALY

    Franco Zambonelli

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building, Peach Street, L69 7ZF, Liverpool, UK

    Michael J. Wooldridge

  2. Technische Universität München, Institut für Informatik, 80290, München, Germany

    Gerhard Weiß

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Ciancarini

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Zambonelli, F. (2002). Abstractions and Infrastructures for the Design and Development of Mobile Agent Organizations. In: Wooldridge, M.J., Weiß, G., Ciancarini, P. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II. AOSE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-70657-7_16

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