This document discusses multi-agent systems and their applications. It provides examples of multi-agent systems for spacecraft control, manufacturing scheduling, and more. Key points:
- Multi-agent systems consist of interacting intelligent agents that can cooperate, coordinate, and negotiate to achieve goals. They offer benefits like robustness, scalability, and reusability.
- Challenges include defining global goals from local actions and incentivizing cooperation. Games like the prisoner's dilemma model social dilemmas around cooperation versus defection.
- The document outlines architectures like the blackboard model and BDI (belief-desire-intention) model. It also provides a manufacturing example using the JADE platform.
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