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5. Multi-agent Systems

Author : Juan C. Burguillo

Published in: Self-organizing Coalitions for Managing Complexity

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The term agent derives from the latin participle agens, coming from the verb agere that means to do and denotes the capability of an entity to do or to act. But in practice the term refers to multiple meanings in different contexts, like a human agent, a hardware agent, a chemical agent, etc. In this book we are interested in the concept of autonomous agents, and for that purpose one of the classical and simple definitions comes from Russell and Norvig (Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2014, [21]) and states that: an agent is any entity that can perceive its environment through sensors and change it by means of actuators.

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Metadata
Title
Multi-agent Systems
Author
Juan C. Burguillo
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Self-organizing Coalitions for Managing Complexity

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-69896-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-69898-4

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69898-4_5

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