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Due to the emergence of Internet and embedded computing, humans will be more and more faced to an increasing intrusion of computing in their day-to-day life by what it is called now smart devices. Agent characteristics like pro-activeness, autonomy and sociability and the inherent distributed nature of multi-agent systems make them a promising tool to use in the smart devices applications. This paper tries to illustrate the benefits of using multi-agent systems on smart communicating objects and discusses the need of using multi-agent platforms. We then present an overview of multi-agent platforms created for use on small devices (i.e. devices with limited computing power) and for each reviewed multi-agent platform we try to identify what are its main characteristics and architectural concepts.
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Carabelea, C., Boissier, O., Ramparany, F. (2003). Benefits and Requirements of Using Multi-agent Systems on Smart Devices. In: Kosch, H., Böszörményi, L., Hellwagner, H. (eds) Euro-Par 2003 Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2790. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45209-6_147
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