The autonomous agent and multi-agent paradigm in software engineering
László Z. Varga · Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae Sectio computatorica · 2021
Research on distributed artificial intelligence became a large field of research which is nowadays called autonomous agent and multiagent system research.The autonomous agent and multi-agent paradigm helps a lot to understand, model and develop software systems for applications where the whole system, or the different parts of the system cannot be under the direct control of a single "authority".This paper overviews the main characteristics of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, as well as their relation to the basic theoretical aspects of software engineering.The paper discusses the problems of complex multi-agent problem solving, and in particular the online routing game model.