JABAT Middleware as a Tool for Solving Optimization Problems.

JABAT supports designing and implementing A-Team architectures for solving difficult optimization problems. This paper presents several applications of JABAT as a tool for solving such problems. List of implementations and extensions of JABAT shows how useful and flexible the system can be. The paper summarises experiences of authors gained while developing various A-Teams. Some conclusions concerning such details of the A-Team model like the composition of the team of agents, the choice of rules determining how the agents interact with the population of solutions, or how synchronisation or cooperation of agents influence the quality of results are offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]