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3APL-M is a platform for building deliberative multi-agent systems whose components execute on handheld and embedded computational devices. The solution takes advantage of the 3APL language and definitions, delivers a methodology for building Belief-Desire-Intention inference systems and provides an interface to integrate the applications to the external world. The library is distributed for the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) programming platform, which is widely adopted by the hardware manufactures and available for a myriad of mobile computing devices. The role of agent-based computing for mobile services is explained, the architecture and programming structures are presented and proof-of-concept applications are demonstrated.
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Koch, F., Meyer, JJ.C., Dignum, F., Rahwan, I. (2006). Programming Deliberative Agents for Mobile Services: The 3APL-M Platform. In: Bordini, R.H., Dastani, M.M., Dix, J., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3862. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11678823_14
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