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educing the overhead of Jadex Binary is to reduce the use of the Java ReflectionAPI to access complex objects. This could be accomplished by injectingbytecode-engineered delegate classes which use direct method calls to retrieveand set bean properties.In addition, the encoder and decoder of Jadex Binary are largely independentof the Jadex platform. It would therefore be possible to include the messageformat in other agent platforms, thereby allowing them to offer an alternativecompact message format for agent communications for certain types of applications.Overall, Jadex Binary is both able to represent agent messages in a compactform and perform in a reasonably fast manner. Since these two features werethe primary goal of Jadex Binary, it does so by sacrificing others like humanreadability. Nevertheless, if those features are important, other established languagesalready provide sufficient support. The addition of Jadex Binary allowsa developer of a multi-agent system to pick the kind of format that provides thebest match for the requirements of a specific application and switch the formatdepending on state of the application in the development cycle.References1. S. Willmott, J. Dale, B. Burg, P. Charlton, and P. O’Brien, “Agentcities: A WorldwideOpen Agent Network,” Agentlink News, vol. 8, November 2001.2. T. Finin, J. Weber, G. Wiederhold, M. Genesereth, D. McKay, R. Fritzson,S. Shapiro, R. Pelavin, and J. McGuire, “Specification of the KQML agentcommunicationlanguage – plus example agent policies and architectures,” Tech.Rep. EIT TR 92-04, 1993.3. FIPA ACL Message Structure Specification, Foundation for Intelligent PhysicalAgents (FIPA), Dec. 2002, document no. FIPA00061. [Online]. Available:http://www.fipa.org4. FIPA SL Content Language Specification, Foundation for Intelligent PhysicalAgents (FIPA), Dec. 2002, document no. FIPA00008. [Online]. Available:http://www.fipa.org5. F. Bellifemine, F. Bergenti, G. Caire, and A. Poggi, “JADE - A Java Agent DevelopmentFramework,” in Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Platforms andApplications, R. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix, and A. El Fallah Seghrouchni, Eds.Springer, 2005, pp. 125–147.6. A. Pokahr and L. Braubach, “From a research to an industrial-strength agentplatform: Jadex V2,” in Business Services: Konzepte, Technologien, Anwendungen- 9. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2009), H.-G. F. HansRobert Hansen, Dimitris Karagiannis, Ed. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft,2 2009, pp. 769–778.7. J. Gosling, B. Joy, G. Steele, and G. Bracha, The Java Language SpecificationThird Second Edition. Addison-Wesley, 2005.8. C. Wiesner, S. Lhomme, and J. Cannon, “Extensible Binary Meta-Language(EBML),” Website, http://ebml.sourceforge.net/, 2012.9. The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard. Addison Wesley, 2006.115