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, the distributed multi-agent reasoning system (dMARS) was a platform for intelligent software agents developed at the AAII that makes uses of the

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(BDI). The design for dMARS was an extension of the intelligent agent cognitive architecture developed at

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(PRS). The most recent incarnation of this framework is the

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platform.

Overview

dMARS was an agent-oriented development and implementation environment written in C++ for building complex, distributed, time-critical systems.

References

* d'Inverno, M., Luck, M., Georgeff, M., Kinny, D. and Wooldridge, M. (2004)
The dMARS Architecture: A Specification of the Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System
. '' Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems''. pp. 5–53. * Mark d'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck, and Michael Wooldridge.
A Formal Specification of dMARS
. In ''Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages'', ATAL'97 appears in

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, volume 1365, pages 155–76, 1997. * Michael Peter Georgeff, Anand S. Rao,
A profile of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
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'', vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 89–92, December 1996.

External links

dMARS Product Brief
on the AAII website via the Internet Archive Distributed artificial intelligence SRI International software

Overview

See also

References

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