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An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems addresses the complexity of choosing which multi-agent control technologies are appropriate for a given problem domain or a given application. Without such knowledge, when faced with a new application domain, agent developers must rely on past experience and intuition to determine whether a multi-agent system is the right approach, and if so, how to structure the agents, how to decompose the problem, and how to coordinate the activities of the agents, and so forth. This unique collection of contributions, written by leading international researchers in the agent community, provides valuable insight into the issues of deciding which technique to apply and when it is appropriate to use them. The contributions also discuss potential trade-offs or caveats involved with each decision.
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AN APPLICATION SCIENCE FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES, AND SIMULATED ORGANIZATIONS International Book Series Series Editor: Gerhard Weiss Technische Universität München Editorial Board: Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Yves Demazeau, CNRS Laboratoire LEIBNIZ, France Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA Les Gasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, SC, USA Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, MA, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Gerhard Weiss, Technical University of Munich, Germany (Series Editor) Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Books in the Series : CONFLICTING AGENTS: Conflict Management in Multi-Agent Systems, edited by Catherine Tessier, Laurent Chaudron and Heinz-Jürgen Müller, ISBN: 0-7923-7210-7 SOCIAL ORDER IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, edited by R