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Although current research on agent systems focuses on relatively small-scale agent systems, soon vast numbers of agents will be deployed in large-scale agent systems, e.g. on the Internet. Large-scale agent systems need to be extensible, heterogenous, interoperable, and scalable. Scalability entails systems to scale (in terms of the number of agents and available resources) almost immediately without noticeable loss of performance, or considerable increase in administrative complexity [1].

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