Multi-Agent Systems: Concepts and Applications

In the recent years it has been observed that some of the domains that need application of Computer Technology are characterized with inherently distributed knowledge and problems whose solution can be drawn from distributed units. In such domains, several entities may like to keep their autonomous behavior while joining their problem-solving abilities in order to solve a complex problem. These and other features make such environments distributed thereby becoming dynamic and continuously changing. As such, the technology used to model such domains or environments must cope with unpredictable situations that appear in the system. This book, therefore, presents the concepts of an appropriate technology known as Multi-Agent Systems that can be used to develop flexible applications needed to resolve unpredictable situations that normally arise in distributed environments. The concepts and applications of Multi-Agent Systems employed in this book will be useful to software engineers who need new paradigms to deal with systems¿ complexities in various domains.