toucheatout 2006-03-15 19:31 MAS
Multiagent systems can be seen as a point of view for modelling systems. As any religion, it is subject to variations, traditions and interpretations. It is a way of seeing the architecture a virtual "world". As in agent-based programming, for instance.
Advantage of the domain is that it is at the crossroads of many unresolved or pending problems, as machine learning, autonomy, decision making, scalability, efficiency, reactivity, ecosystems, managing trustworthiness, emergence in complex systems.
That is, for pertinent fields in the industry: security, automation, user adaptativity, large scale integration and self-reliance.