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 <h3>Agent Modeling Platform</h3>
 <p>The AMP project provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for representing, editing, generating,
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 <p>AMP is in the<BR />
 <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/validation-phase.php">Incubation Phase</a>.</p>
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 <h6>Current Status</h6>
 <p>We've had our first official Release! Check out all of the <a