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AMETAS — the Asynchronous MEssage Transfer Agent System

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Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

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AMETAS is a Java-based environment for creating and running mobile, autonomous agents. Some of its characteristic aspects are the 3-tieroriented structure of applications, the restriction to pure message passing between the components, the security subsystem, and the flexible mediation subsystem which may employ declarative type descriptions for finding agents. In this article we will provide details about these aspects, also including application notes.

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  1. accsis GmbH, KÄuhhornshofweg 8, 60320, Frankfurt, Germany

    Michael Zapf

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  1. Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Gesamthochschule Essen, Schützenbahn 70, D-45117, Essen

    Rainer Unland

  2. Whitestein Technologies, Pestalozzistrasse 24, CH-8032, Zürich

    Monique Calisti

  3. Deduction and Multiagent Systems, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken

    Matthias Klusch

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Zapf, M. (2005). AMETAS — the Asynchronous MEssage Transfer Agent System. In: Unland, R., Calisti, M., Klusch, M. (eds) Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7348-2_14

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