Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing

The JADE Platform and Experiences with Mobile MAS Applications.- A-globe: Agent Development Platform with Inaccessibility and Mobility Support.- Supporting Agent Development in Erlang through the eXAT Platform.- Living Systems® Technology Suite.- Multi Agent System Development Kit.- An Integrated Development Environment for Electronic Institutions.- Jadex: A BDI-Agent System Combining Middleware and Reasoning.- Component Agent Framework for Non-Experts (CAFnE) Toolkit.- The WSDL2Agent Tool.- WS2JADE: A Tool for Run-time Deployment and Control of Web Services as JADE Agent Services.- A System for Analysis of Multi-Issue Negotiation.- FuzzyMAN: An Agent-based E-Marketplace with a Voice and Mobile User Interface.- Efficient Agent Communication in Wireless Environments.- AMETAS — the Asynchronous MEssage Transfer Agent System.- Tracy: An Extensible Plugin-Oriented Software Architecture for Mobile Agent Toolkits.- The Packet-World: A Test Bed for Investigating Situated Multi-Agent Systems.- Decommitment in a Competitive Multi-Agent Transportation Setting.- TeamWorker: An Agent-Based Support System for Mobile Task Execution.

First book devoted to the description of running agent platforms, frameworks, systems, applications, and tools Gives a comprehensive overview about agent-related systems Allows the reader who wants to apply agent technology to learn about important systems on the market Much more application- and system-oriented than research-oriented (almost all books on the market are research-oriented or textbooks)