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Formalisms for multi-agent systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

MARK D'INVERNO ,
MICHAEL FISHER ,
ALESSIO LOMUSCIO ,
MICHAEL LUCK ,
MAARTEN DE RIJKE ,
MARK RYAN  and
MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE
MARK D'INVERNO
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, UK
MICHAEL FISHER
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
ALESSIO LOMUSCIO
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
MICHAEL LUCK
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
MAARTEN DE RIJKE
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
MARK RYAN
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE
Affiliation:
Agent Systems Group, Zuno, London, UK
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Abstract

As computer scientists, our goals are motivated by the desire to improve computer systems in some way: making them easier to design and implement, more robust and less prone to error, easier to use, faster, cheaper, and so on. In the field of multi-agent systems, our goal is to build systems capable of flexible autonomous decision making, with societies of such systems cooperating with one-another. There is a lot of formal theory in the area but it is often not obvious what such theories should represent and what role the theory is intended to play. Theories of agents are often abstract and obtuse and not related to concrete computational models.

Type
Brief Report
Information
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 315 - 321
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This report is the result of a panel discussion at the First UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (FoMAS'96). All members of the panel are authors, listed alphabetically.