Supporting Internet-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

Although current research on agent systems focuses on relatively small-scale agent systems, soon vast numbers of agents will be deployed in large-scale agent systems, e.g. on the Internet. Large-scale agent systems need to be extensible

Scalable Middleware Environment for Agent-Based Internet Applications

Abstract. The AgentScape middleware is designed to support deployment of agent-based applications on Internet-scale distributed systems. With the design of AgentScape, three dimensions of scalability are considered: size of distributed system, geographical distance between resources, and number of administrative domains. This paper reports on the AgentScape design requirements and decisions, its architecture, and its components.