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JAAFAAR: A Web-Based Multi-Agent Toolkit for Collective Research

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This paper introduces a generic and opened multi-agent platform that provides a powerful scientific equipment for collective research on self-organized systems. A general thought on the mutation of object model towards the agent model is presented. The paper details the construction of the platform upon generic models of environment and agent. Then we present the extension of the toolkit to web-based technologies, and its suitability for collective research and remote works.

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  1. IREMIA – Université de la Réunion, 15, Avenue René Cassin, BP 7151, 97715, Saint-Denis messag cedex 9, France

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Calderoni, S., Soulié, JC. JAAFAAR: A Web-Based Multi-Agent Toolkit for Collective Research. Annals of Software Engineering 13, 265–283 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016557729297

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