Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Sat May 15 17:17:12 2004


Latest news and new additions
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Jadex BDI Agent System
Jadex stands for "JADE extension" and represents a Belief Desire
Intention (BDI) extension for the well-known JADE multi-agent
platform. Jadex allows the usage of higher-level agent concepts for
implementing agents.
<http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/projects/jadex/>

MIC* Framework
Within the MIC* framework the multi-agent system is devided
explicitly into two dimensions: the deployment environment and the
autonomous agents that populate it. MIC* is an algebraic model of a
deployment environment and this project represents its implementation.
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mic>

GBBopen
GBBopen is a modern, high-performance, open source
collaborating-software framework based on the concepts that were
explored and refined in the UMass Generic Blackboard system and the
commercial GBB product. Available for download.
<http://gbbopen.org/>

Engineering Societies in the Agents World
ESAW 2004 remains committed tothe use of the notion of multi-agent
systems as seed for animated,constructive, and highly
inter-disciplinary discussions abouttechnologies, methodologies, and
tools for the engineering of complexdistributed applications. To be
held 20-22 October 2004 in Toulouse, France. Papers due 20 June 2004.
<http://www.irit.fr/ESAW04/>

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Edited by Jose M. Vidal.