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IMPACT (Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together) provides a platform and environment for agent and software interoperability being developed as a joint, multinational effort with participants from the University of Maryland, the Technische Universität Wien, Bar-Ilan University, the University of Koblenz, and the Univesita di Torino. In this invited talk, I will describe the overall architecture of the IMPACT system, and outline how this architecture (i) allows agents to be developed either from scratch, or by extending legacy code-bases (ii) allows agents to interact with one another, (iii) allows agents to have a variety of capabilities (reactive, autonomouns intelligent, mobile, replicating) and behaviors, and (iv) how IMPACT provides a variety of infrastructural services that may be used by agents to interact with one another.
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K. Arisha, T. Eiter, S. Kraus, F. Ozcan, R. Ross and V.S. Subrahmanian. IMPACT: Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together, IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine, March 1999, to appear.
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V.S. Subrahmanian, P. Bonatti, J. Dix, T. Eiter, S. Kraus, F. Ozcan and R. Ross. Heterogeneous Agent Systems Theory and Implementation, MIT Press, 1999, to appear.
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Subrahmanian, V.S. (1999). Heterogeneous agent systems (Extended abstract). In: Raś, Z.W., Skowron, A. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1609. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095089
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