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Recent research in area of multi-agent technology attracted a growing attention of both scientific community and industrial companies. This attention is stipulated by powerful capabilities of multi-agent technology allowing to create large scale distributed intelligent systems, and, on the other hand, by practical needs of industrial companies to possess an advanced and reliable technology for solving of practically important problems. Currently one of the topmost questions of the research is development of powerful methodologies for engineering of agent-based systems and development of more effective and efficient tools supporting implementation of applied systems. The paper presents one of such tools, Multi Agent System Development Kit, based on and implementing of Gaia methodology. It supports the whole life cycle of multi-agent system development and maintains integrity of solutions produced at different stages of the development process.
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Gorodetski, V., Karsaev, O., Samoilov, V., Konushy, V., Mankov, E., Malyshev, A. (2005). Multi-Agent System Development Kit. In: Shi, Z., He, Q. (eds) Intelligent Information Processing II. IIP 2004. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 163. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23152-8_9
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