Platform for building large-scale agent-based systems

Abstract

This paper presents an agent platform called PANGEA (Platform for Automatic construction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents). This platform allows to developed multiagent systems modeled as Virtual Organizations. The concepts of roles, organizations and norms are fully supported by the platform assuring flexibility and scalability. Moreover, a communication protocol based on IRC gives high performance and reliability to this kind of distributed systems.