Agent and multiagent computing for complex environments

自治代理是能够在开放的、不可预测的环境中独立行动的计算机系统。目前，并发和分布式系统非常普遍，在这种情况下，单个自治代理是不够的。许多应用程序，如果不是大多数，需要多个自治代理，也称为多代理系统。在这样的计算系统中，知识、动作和控制在代理之间分布，代理可以根据上下文进行合作、竞争或共存。

Autonomous agents are computer systems that are capable of independent action in open, unpredictable environments. Nowadays, concurrent and distributed systems are very common, it becomes obvious in this case that a single autonomous agent is insufficient. Many applications, if not most of them, require multiple autonomous agents, called also Multiagent Systems. In such computing systems, knowledge, action and control are distributed among the agents, which may cooperate, compete or coexist depending on the context.