ZEUS: An Advanced Tool-Kit for Engineering Distributed Multi-Agent Systems Export

@inproceedings{Nwana1998, abstract = {There is an emerging consensus on the need to develop methodologies and tool-kits for building distributed multi-agent systems. This paper presents ZEUS, an advanced development tool-kit for constructing collaborative agent applications. ZEUS is a culmination of a careful synthesis of established agent technologies with the addition of some new ones, to provide an integrated environment for the rapid software engineering of collaborative agent applications. ZEUS defines a multi-agent system design methodology, supports the methodology with an environment for capturing user specification of agents, and automatically generates the executable source code of the user-defined agents. We also report on preliminary informal evaluation of ZEUS on three domains.}, address = {London, UK}, author = {Nwana, Hyacinth S. and Ndumu, Divine T. and Lee, Lyndon C.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM '98)}, citeulike-article-id = {3149581}, comment = {not reviewed}, keywords = {agent-architecture, collaboration, multiagent-systems}, month = {March}, pages = {377--392}, posted-at = {2008-08-22 17:09:48}, priority = {2}, title = {{ZEUS}: An Advanced Tool-Kit for Engineering Distributed Multi-Agent Systems}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - Nwana1998 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3149581 N2 - There is an emerging consensus on the need to develop methodologies and tool-kits for building distributed multi-agent systems. This paper presents ZEUS, an advanced development tool-kit for constructing collaborative agent applications. ZEUS is a culmination of a careful synthesis of established agent technologies with the addition of some new ones, to provide an integrated environment for the rapid software engineering of collaborative agent applications. ZEUS defines a multi-agent system design methodology, supports the methodology with an environment for capturing user specification of agents, and automatically generates the executable source code of the user-defined agents. We also report on preliminary informal evaluation of ZEUS on three domains. AD - London, UK EP - 392 TI - {ZEUS}: An Advanced Tool-Kit for Engineering Distributed Multi-Agent Systems T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM '98) SP - 377 KW - agent-architecture KW - collaboration KW - multiagent-systems N1 - not reviewed AU - Nwana, Hyacinth AU - Ndumu, Divine AU - Lee, Lyndon PY - 1998/March// ER -