Overview of Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE)
Robotics & Automation Engineering
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Agents are entities that are characterized by their autonomy, their ability to sense and interact with their environment, and their ability to make decisions based on real-time information. Multiagent systems (MAS) are, in essence, a collection or grouping of agents.
The field of MAS is typically considered part of the larger field of artificial intelligence and is an active field of academic research. Researchers in agent-based systems, including MAS, span a diversity of sciences. The study of these systems has revealed much about the relationship between a system's internal structure and external behavior. For example, entomologists, who study social insects, such as ants, bees, and termites, have deduced rules individual insects follow and how those individual actions give rise to colony-level behaviors. Social scientists study the behavior of groups, including mobs, and how those meta-scale behaviors emerge from the individual actions of the group members.
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Related Terminology
agent-based systems • multiagent systems • distributed intelligence • decentralized control • architectures • multiagent systems engineering • engineered system
