A concise guide to the Agentcities initiative and the best starting points for current agent-based computing research.
This website documents the Agentcities research initiative, which operated from approximately 2000 to 2005. The Agentcities Task Force (ACTF) and its ten working groups are no longer active organizations. The researchers, institutions, and companies that participated have long since moved on to other projects and organizations. The material covers the network architecture, the working group outputs, the events, the research projects, and the technical recommendations — as a reference for historians, researchers, and practitioners interested in the evolution of agent-based computing.
The pages here cover the history of the Agentcities initiative and the evolution of multi-agent systems as a research field. They do not provide technical support for contemporary AI systems or a route to former Agentcities participants.
We cannot put you in contact with former Agentcities working group members or participants. We have no affiliation with FIPA, JADE, or any of the research institutions that took part in the initiative. For contemporary multi-agent systems research, the resources listed below are far more appropriate starting points than these historical pages.
If your interest is in active research rather than history, these organizations and platforms are the right places to begin: