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Encyclopedia: Multi-agent system

In computer science, a multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of several agents, collectively capable of reaching goals that are difficult to achieve by an individual agent or monolithic system.

The exact nature of the agents is a matter of some controversy. They are sometimes claimed to be autonomous. For example a household floor cleaning robot can be autonomous in that it is dependent only on a human operator to start it up. On the other hand, in practice, all agents are under active human supervision. Furthermore, the more important the activities of the agent are to humans, the more supervision that they receive. In fact, autonomy is seldom desired. Instead interdependent systems are needed.

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How to say "Multi-agent system" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	マルチエージェントシステム
	(German)	Multiagentensystem
	(Spanish)	Sistema multi-agente
	(French)	Systèmes multi-agents
	(Italian)	Sistema multiagente

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Cooperative distributed problem solving

Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving is a network of semi-autonomous processing nodes working together to solve a problem, typically in a Multi-Agent system...

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Multi-Agent System

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Interaction protocol

Interaction protocols describe possible communication scenarios between individual agents in Multi-Agent Systems. FIPA defines markup for interaction protocol diagrams and several standard interaction protocols, including Dutch auction, English auction and reply-response...

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Mas

Mas is short for masquerade and is part of carnival tradition from Trinidad and Tobago. Masks are work and characters such as "Pitchy Patchy" (Jonkonou) and "Dame Lorraine" are depicted. MAS is an abbreviation for Multi-Agent System...

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Software agent

Multi-Agent System. Examples: user agent mail transfer agent SNMP agent DAML daemons in Unix-like... of tasks Agent systems are used to model real world systems with concurrency or parallel processing...Software agent is used in computer science to refer to pieces of autonomous, or semi-autonomous...

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Stigmergy

, multi-agent systems and communication in computer networks. Links: http://www.stigmergicsystems.com... Stigmergy is a method of communication in decentralised systems in which the individual parts of the system communicate with one another by modifying their local environment. Stigmergy was first...

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