{"id":19205,"date":"2023-05-09T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/multi-agent-systems-are-systems-where-more-than-one-intelligent-agents-are-situated-in-the-same-environment\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:21:07","slug":"multi-agent-systems-are-systems-where-more-than-one-intelligent-agents-are-situated-in-the-same-environment","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/multi-agent-systems-are-systems-where-more-than-one-intelligent-agents-are-situated-in-the-same-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi Agent systems are systems where more than one intelligent agents are situated in the same environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multi Agent systems are systems where more than one intelligent agents are situated in the same environment;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>they do not have to be owned by the same user, and they may be adversarial to each other.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Likewise, the whole system may be owned by the same user and the agents may cooperate to achieve the same collective delegated goal.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;You are required to select an application that does not use a multi agent systems approach, and consider what a MAS approach would look like. You can use your professional setting, your desired future job, your life experiences or your general interests to help select the application.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;For example, a car sharing application that helps people pool their commute journey, but is currently a manual process where users have to select the matches themselves, could use a multi agent systems approach utilising the contract net protocol.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for this assignment:<br \/>\nReview the module&#8217;s resources, references, and lecturecasts.<br \/>\nTo complete this discussion:&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Your contribution to the discussion is expected over a three-week period as follows:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>&nbsp;Week One<\/b> \u2013 Post your initial response to the discussion prompt (400-600 words).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;Include references to your sources of information so that other students can find them easily.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;In this discussion forum, it is not strictly required to use academic sources, but sources from other domains such as news, reviews, and industry press releases (amongst others) are encouraged.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>&nbsp;Your initial post should:&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Focus on a specific application that does not use an MAS approach, but you believe has potential to exploit this technology.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Discuss how an MAS approach could work for this application, including how feasible this may be.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Would there be any significant changes in functionality?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Would there be any significant changes in usability?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Are there any potential advantages to an MAS approach over the conventional approach?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Are there any potential downsides to an MAS approach over the conventional approach?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>You should include any relevant points on legal, ethical or social issues.<br \/>\nYou are NOT required to design or implement any solution \u2013 you are required to simply discuss a potential solution.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi Agent systems are systems where more than one intelligent agents are situated in the same environment;&nbsp; they do not have to be owned by the same user, and they may be adversarial to each other.&nbsp; Likewise, the whole system may be owned by the same user and the agents may cooperate to achieve the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19205"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19205"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}