Multi Agent System Development Kit
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Abstract
Recent advances in the area of multi-agent technology are attracting a growing attention and interest of both scientific community and industry. This interest is stipulated, on the one hand, by the steadily increasing capabilities of multi-agent technology that offers a new paradigm and powerful means for design of large scale distributed intelligent systems, and, on the other hand, by the practical needs of industry to have a reliable and efficient technology to cope with new challenges of practice. At present, one of the most important research challenges is elaboration of powerful methodologies for agent-based systems engineering and development of efficient software tools supporting implementation and deployment of the multi-agent systems. The paper presents one of such tools, Multi-Agent System Development Kit, based on and implementing Gaia methodology that supports the complete life cycle of multi-agent system engineering, implementation and deployment, and insures the integrity of all the solutions produced by designers at different stages of the development process.
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