NTT Communication Science Laboratories licensed MINERVA for research in intelligent distributed agents.

"We will use MINERVA to implement problem solving components to use with JADE Agents." said Jun-ichi Akahani, Senior Research Scientist of NTT Corporation.

JADE, Java Agent Development Framework, is designed to help implementation of multi-agent systems through a middle-ware that claims to comply with the FIPA specifications by The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents.

For early technology demonstration, NTT researchers plan to use MINERVA in the next phase of the Digital City Project sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Foundation (JST).