Current development platforms for mobile agents and multi agent systems

In the last few years the research in mobile gents, and multi agent systems has begun to leave the theoretical research arena and has turned towards d eveloping practical applications and development tools. Agent-based systems are able to work autonomously on given tasks and to adapt themselves to a dynamic environment and changing tasks. For the development of distributed systems the programming language Java has proven suitable. This paper intro duces into some of Java-based development tools for the design of intellige nt and mobile agents and multi agent systems. In particular, the analysis o f architecture of systems, the support of communication and cooperation, an d consisting security architectures are considered.