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MATES 2014: Multiagent System Technologies pp 202–215Cite as

Extensible Java EE-based Agent Framework in Clustered Environments

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Modern enterprise-scale applications are executed on computer clusters in order to achieve horizontal scaling, as well as uninterrupted delivery of services. However, the industry-based standards and technical solutions have rarely been utilized by agent developers. This paper presents recent research effort aimed at improving our existing Java EE-based agent framework in order to fully exploit the benefits of clustered computing. Among other benefits, the new architecture provides automatic agent load-balancing and fault-tolerance, without “reinventing the wheel.”

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

    Dejan Mitrović, Mirjana Ivanović & Zoran Budimac

  2. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

    Milan Vidaković

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Mitrović, D., Ivanović, M., Vidaković, M., Budimac, Z. (2014). Extensible Java EE-based Agent Framework in Clustered Environments. In: Müller, J.P., Weyrich, M., Bazzan, A.L.C. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8732. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11584-9_14

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