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Paper accepted: ITMAS Workshop @ AAMAS 2010
Drag-and-Drop Migration: An Example of Mapping User Actions to Agent Infrastructures
Silvan Kaiser, Michael Burkhardt, Jakob Tonn
Abstract
Runtime management of a distributed Multi-Agent System is a complex task. Tools that offer a generic solution for this problem and that are intuitive to use only exist in a very limited way so far. In this paper, we take the example of a Drag-And-Drop migration feature to show a concept and a prototype implementation for an intuitive to use user action. This triggers an interaction between the Multi-Agent Sys- tem and the visual management application, resulting in a migration of a mobile agent between different Agent Nodes. The example shows how the software agent metaphor, used in AOSE concepts at design time, can be sustained and elab- orated in runtime tools for Multi-Agent Systems.
