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The RoleX Environment for Multi-agent Cooperation

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Cooperative Information Agents VIII (CIA 2004)

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In this paper we present the RoleX environment for multi-agent systems. Born to support the management of role-based interactions, Rolex provides different services, in particular to support open and flexible cooperation. To this purpose, RoleX exploits an event-based communication mechanism and adopts SOAP as message encoding. Such features make RoleX well suit dynamic and unpredictable scenarios such as the Internet.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Modena e Reggio, Emilia Via Vignolese, 905, 41100, Modena, ITALY

    Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari & Letizia Leonardi

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies (CETINIA), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Tulipán s/n, 28933, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain

    Sascha Ossowski

  3. National Library of Medicine, USA

    Vipul Kashyap

  4. Universität Duisburg-Essen,  

    Rainer Unland

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Cabri, G., Ferrari, L., Leonardi, L. (2004). The RoleX Environment for Multi-agent Cooperation. In: Klusch, M., Ossowski, S., Kashyap, V., Unland, R. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VIII. CIA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30104-2_19

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