HOW TO BUILD A MULTI-MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM - The Agent.Enterprise Approach
Tim Stockheim, Jens Nimis, Thorsten Scholz, Marcel Stehli · 2004
Keywords: Agent-oriented software engineering, Multi-agent systems, Application integration Abstract: The maturity of technical foundations for multi-agent systems and the support by development tools, infrastructure services, and a number of development methodologies leads to an increasing number of existing multi-agent systems. A more and more networked environment drives the demand for coupling these heterogeneous systems to large multi-multi-agent systems. Unfortunately, the design and implementation steps necessary in this context are currently not supported by established development methodologies; conventional approaches mainly focus on isolated multi-agent systems. In this paper, we present an approach for the integration of heterogeneous multi-agent systems. The Agent.Enterprise system is a coupled multimulti-agent system that has been designed and tested in the manufacturing logistics domain. 1