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Nowadays there is a clear trend towards using methods and tools that can help to develop multiagent systems (MAS). This study presents a multiagent based middleware for the agents behavior simulation. The main challenge of this work is the design and development of a new infrastructure that can act as a middleware to communicate the current technology in charge of the development of the multiagent system and the technology in charge of the simulation, visualization and analysis of the behavior of the agents. It is a key element when considering that MAS are autonomous, adaptive and complex systems and provides advances abilities for visualization. The proposed middleware infrastructure makes it possible to visualize the emergent agent behaviour and the entity agent. It also allows visualization of the interaction between the agent and the environment.
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García, E., Rodríguez, S., Martín, B., Zato, C., Pérez, B. (2011). MISIA: Middleware Infrastructure to Simulate Intelligent Agents. In: Abraham, A., Corchado, J.M., González, S.R., De Paz Santana, J.F. (eds) International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 91. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19934-9_14
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