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JADE: a Software Framework for Developing Multi-Agent Applications. Lessons Learned
No full textSince a number of years agent technology is considered one of the most innovative technologies for the development of distributed
software systems. While not yet a mainstream approach in software engineering at large, a lot of work on agent technology has been
done, many research results and applications have been presented, and some software products exists which have moved from the
research community to the industrial community. One of these is JADE, a software framework that facilitates development of interoperable
intelligent multi-agent systems and that is distributed under an Open Source License. JADE is a very mature product, used by a
heterogeneous community of users both in research activities and in industrial applications. This paper presents JADE and its technological
components together with a discussion of the possible reasons for its success and lessons learned from the somewhat detached
perspective possible nine years after its inception
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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