Overview
- Gives an overview of the field and contains descriptions of concrete applications
- Describes how to identify and address the relevant technical problems
- Explains how to engineer, integrate and test multi-agent systems for real world applications
- Detailed descriptions of the development of two large-scale multi-agent systems: Agent.Hospital and Agent.Enterprise
- Demonstrates clearly that multi-agent technology has a great potential for innovative information systems, if a high degree of flexibility of the overall systems is required, e.g. because human actions and technical systems exhibit a great degree of local autonomy, or if the work environment is highly dynamic
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Handbooks on Information Systems (INFOSYS)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Management Summary
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What Agents Are and What They Are Good For
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Application Examples I: Agent.Enterprise
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Application Examples II: Agent.Hospital
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multiagent Engineering
Book Subtitle: Theory and Applications in Enterprises
Editors: Stefan Kirn, Otthein Herzog, Peter Lockemann, Otto Spaniol
Series Title: International Handbooks on Information Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32062-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-31406-6Published: 05 May 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32062-3Published: 10 August 2006
Series ISSN: 2627-8510
Series E-ISSN: 2627-8529
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 626
Number of Illustrations: 153 b/w illustrations
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, IT in Business
Industry Sectors: Aerospace, Automotive, Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Electronics, Energy, Utilities & Environment, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Health & Hospitals, IT & Software, Law, Materials & Steel, Oil, Gas & Geosciences, Pharma, Telecommunications