MAGE (Multi-AGent Environment) is an agent-oriented environment for software designing, integrating and running. It provides a new computing and problem-solving paradigm in terms of agent technology. MAGE has facilities to support agent mental state representation, reasoning, negotiation, planning, cooperation and communication. It provides system designing support, description and assembling of knowledge and capability, negotiation and cooperation designing for agent-based computing on the Internet. We spent more than ten years developing MAGE system, and now MAGE has reached Version 2.0.

MAGE is a software framework fully implemented in Java language. First it simplifies the implementation of multi-agent systems through a middle-ware that claims to comply with the FIPA specifications and through a set of tools that supports the debugging and deployment phase; Second it simplifies integration of applications through multiple schemes of software reuses and an agent-oriented software design with a graphic user interface, and also it simplifies the running management through a powerful GUI with many run-time supportThe agent platform can be distributed across machines (which not even need to share the same OS) and the configuration can be controlled via a remote GUI. The configuration can be even changed at run-time by moving agents from one machine to another one when required. The system needs only Java Run Time version 1.2 or later version as a running environment.