Indirect Interaction in Environments for Multi-agent Systems Export

@incollection{citeulike:2314271, abstract = {The E4MAS community is leading an effort to accept environments of multi-agent systems as a first-class entity, distinguishing indirect interaction via the environment from the environment's role in message transport. This paper defines classes of interaction (sequential and multi-agent, direct and indirect) and environments (physical and virtual, persistent and amnesic, dynamic and static). These notions provide an underpinning for proper acknowledgement of the roles of MAS environments and for powerful MAS design techniques that use indirect interaction. We explore the limitations of MAS models that are restricted to message passing and suggest research directions for constructing more powerful models.}, author = {Keil, David and Goldin, Dina}, citeulike-article-id = {2314271}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11678809_5}, doi = {10.1007/11678809_5}, journal = {Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II}, keywords = {3rd-generation, agents, emergent-behavior, indirect, interactive, multi-agent-systems, self-organizing, self-synchronization}, pages = {68--87}, posted-at = {2008-06-08 03:47:19}, priority = {0}, title = {Indirect Interaction in Environments for Multi-agent Systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11678809_5}, year = {2006} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2314271 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2314271 N2 - The E4MAS community is leading an effort to accept environments of multi-agent systems as a first-class entity, distinguishing indirect interaction via the environment from the environment’s role in message transport. This paper defines classes of interaction (sequential and multi-agent, direct and indirect) and environments (physical and virtual, persistent and amnesic, dynamic and static). These notions provide an underpinning for proper acknowledgement of the roles of MAS environments and for powerful MAS design techniques that use indirect interaction. We explore the limitations of MAS models that are restricted to message passing and suggest research directions for constructing more powerful models. JF - Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II EP - 87 TI - Indirect Interaction in Environments for Multi-agent Systems SP - 68 KW - 3rd-generation KW - agents KW - emergent-behavior KW - indirect KW - interactive KW - multi-agent-systems KW - self-organizing KW - self-synchronization AU - Keil, David AU - Goldin, Dina PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11678809_5 ER -