Description of a multi-agent system
Multi-agent systems
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Description of a multi-agent system
Multi-agent systems

Authors : René MANDIAU, Emmanuelle GRISLIN-LE STRUGEON

Publication date: March 10, 2002 | Lire en français

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1. Description of a multi-agent system

This section presents the characteristics of a multi-agent system, defining the attributes of an intelligent entity (called an agent) and introducing the description of the complete system.

1.1 Defining an agent

Numerous definitions of agents exist [3][9][10][18] . There is no real consensus on any of them, due to the wide variety of entities referred to as "agents".

 

An agent represents "an entity that acts", i.e. an entity capable of modifying...

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