MAS in the 21st CenturyóA Dominant Model

Cooperating, Intelligent Agent Societies

(seamless integration among people/machines)

• Constructionist perspective

  • built out of heterogeneous, semi-autonomous agents

    • having varying motivations from totally self-interested to benevolent

• High-level artificial language for cooperation

• Problem solving for effective cooperation will be as or more sophisticated than the actual domain problem solving

  • reasoning about goals, plans, intentions, and knowledge of other agents

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