Multi-agent communication

• Main Author: Wee, Phie Lip.
• Other Authors: Shen Zhiqi
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20778
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Multi-Agent System (MAS) is a system that composes of many agents interacting collectively to resolve problems and where it is difficult or nearly impossible for a single agent to resolve [1]. These systems can then apply in distributed control, distributed resource management, optimization, and electronic marketplaces [1]. It enhances the overall system performance, specifically along the dimensions of computational efficiency, reliability, extensibility etc. An agent(s) can be referred as a component of software and/or hardware, and are autonomous, co-operative, and able to learn things among themselves [3]. In agent technology, autonomy; referred to as a condition, in which a single agent(s) are able to perform a given task without direct the intervention of human or other agent(s). Generally, agent(s) can a both reactive (selfawareness) and proactive (goal oriented), and are able to communicate with each other to form collaboration within each other to perform certain task should the need arise.