Agent Toolkits

Agent-based applications need a significant amount of enabling infrastructure before even one message is exchanged between agents. A large set of supporting services must be made available throughout an agent-based system before the application developer can move on to focus on the application domain, be it e-business, Grid computing, or Ambient Intelligence. Such services range from basic communication to discovery, coordination, security, and so on, and come together to provide an environment that can support agent-based computing. In this way, they can be considered as providing the operating system for agents