Architecture-Based Design of Multi-Agent Systems

• Main Author: Weyns, Danny (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Special purpose computers.; Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.

Multi-agent systems are claimed to be especially suited to the development of software systems that are decentralized, can deal flexibly with dynamic conditions, and are open to system components that come and go. This is why they are used in domains such as manufacturing control, automated vehicles...