An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems.
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...On short time scales, coexisting ordered domains of small size (both positive and negative) are formed....
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...…Steels, 1995; Varela and Bourgine, 1992; Weiss, 1999), but since then agent-based simulations have become an important tool in other scientific fields and in particular in the study of social systems (Axelrod, 2006; Conte et al., 1997; Macy and Willer, 2002; Schweitzer, 2003; Wooldridge, 2002)....
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...Given this new landscape, we advocate the use of multiagent systems (MASs) as a software engineering paradigm for designing and developing complex software systems [58, 27, 57]....
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...Agents are touted as being better able to interact with complex, real-world situations than objects, since they are network-centric, adaptive and self-modifying (indeed, self-repairing) – unlike objects, which are fixed and unable to modify their behavior over time, being constrained to obey the Boolean logic rules which underpin them [19,183,197,210,317]....
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...The most important common properties of computational agents are as follows: • Agents act on behalf of their designer or the user they represent in order to meet a particular purpose....
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...With all of its merits, integration resulted in rigid, hierarchical control architectures whose structural complexity grew rapidly with the size and the scope of the systems....
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...Typically, one way to take care of global objectives and system-wide constraints is to channel all/some interactions through a central coordinator (manager) agent....
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