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Agentcities: A Worldwide Open Agent Network
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Artificial IntelligenceEngineeringIntelligent SystemsCommunicationSoftware AgentAgent-based SystemIntelligent AgentsAgent Programming LanguageAgent ArchitectureAgent Development ToolOntology IssuesAgent ResearchNetwork ScienceAgent TechnologySocial ComputingMulti-agent SystemsAutomationKnowledge ManagementTechnologyAgent-oriented Software Engineering
Over past decade, agent research has reached a significant level of maturity with wellestablished theories, languages and methodologies. Despite these successes, vision of agents as intelligent, autonomous entities seamlessly interacting with one another in open heterogeneous environments [Hewitt90] has yet to be realised. As Nwana and Ndumu [Nwana98] point out the devil in realising promises of agent technology is in details. These details include challenging coordination, communication, discovery, trust, security and ontology issues that are found in truly open environments where agents that are owned by many different individuals and organisations can interact and interoperate.