New Whiltesteine Agents book: Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

Dear All,

We're happy to announce a new Whitestein book about Agent-Based 
Applications, Platforms and Development Kits.
More information about the book can be found below and at:

http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40356-72-52122520-0,00.html

Best regards,
Monique Calisti, Matthias Klusch, Rainer Unland



Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies
Unland, Rainer; Klusch, Matthias; Calisti, Monique (Eds.)
2005, XII, 448 p., Softcover
ISBN: 3-7643-7347-4
48,00 €
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40356-72-52122520-0,00.html

About this book
This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, 
and applications. Each system is described by their developers in 
sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the 
architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All 
systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent 
platforms and toolkits. They form the basis for the development of 
agent-based systems, thus, are a convenient starting point for everybody 
who wants to apply agent technology. Another focus lies on agent-based 
applications. These systems prove that agent technology is mature enough 
to permit the development of sophisticated applications, like electronic 
marketplaces, environments for computer-supported cooperative work, or 
transportation systems.

Written for:
Researchers, system developers, students working in agent-related 
projects as well as decision-makers interested in the current 
state-of-the-art of running agent-related systems

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Agent Tool Kits I (Platforms)

The JADE Platform and Experiences with Mobile MAS Applications
Fabio Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire, Giosuè Vitaglione, Giovanni Rimassa, 
Dominic Greenwood

A-Globe: Agent Development Platform with Inaccessibility and Mobility 
Support
David Šišlák, Martin Rehák, Michal Pechoucek, Milan Rollo, Dušan Pavlicek

Supporting Agent Development in Erlang through the eXAT Platform
Antonella Di Stefano, Corrado Santoro


Agent Tool Kits II (Development Environments)

Living Systems Technology Suite
Giovanni Rimassa, Monique Calisti and Martin E. Kernland

Multi Agent System Development Kit
Vladimir Gorodetsky, Oleg Karsaev, Vladimir Samoylov, Victor Konushy, 
Evgeny Mankov, Alexey Malyshev

An Integrated Development Environment for Electronic Institutions
Josep Lluís Arcos, Marc Esteva, Pablo Noriega, Juan Antonio 
Rodríıguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra


Agent Tool Kits III (Frameworks)

Jadex: A BDI-Agent System Combining Middleware And Reasoning
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Winfried Lamersdorf

Component Agent Framework For Non-Experts (CAFnE) Toolkit
Gaya Jayatilleke, Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff


Tools for the Integration of Web-Services and Agent Technology

The WSDL2Agent Tool
László Zsolt Varga, Ákos Hajnal, Zsolt Werner

WS2JADE: A Tool for Run-Time Deployment and Control of Web Services as 
JADE Agent Services
Xuan Thang Nguyen, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Alasdair Grant


Tool Support for Agent Communication and Negotiation

A System for Analysis of Multi-Issue Negotiation
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Lourens van der Meij, Valentin Robu, 
Jan Treur

FuzzyMan: An Agent-Based E-Marketplace with a Voice and Mobile User 
Interface
Frank Teuteberg, Iouri Loutchko

Efficient Agent Communication in Wireless Environments
Heikki Helin, Mikko Laukkanen


Mobile Agent Tool Kits

AMETAS - The Asynchronous Message Transfer Agent System
Michael Zapf

Tracy: An Extensible Plug-in-Oriented Software Architecture for Mobile 
Agent Toolkits
Peter Braun, Ingo Müller, Tino Schlegel, Steffen Kern, Volkmar Schau, 
Wilhelm Rossak


Applications of Agent Technology

The Packet-World: A Test Bed for Investigating Situated Multi-Agent Systems
Danny Weyns, Alexander Helleboogh, Tom Holvoet

Decommitment in a Competitive Multi-Agent Transportation Setting
Pieter Jan 't Hoen, Valentin Robu, Han La Poutre

Teamworker: An Agent-Based Support System for Mobile Task Execution
Habin Lee, Patrik Mihailescu, John Shepherdson

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Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Practical Computer Science, especially Data
Management Systems and Knowledge Representation
Schuetzenbahn 70
45117 Essen, Germany
Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421
Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
email: UnlandR   at  informatik.uni-essen.de
WWW: http://www.cs.uni-essen.de/dawis/
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