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Multi-Agent Systems research is a new field. Therefore, no consensus exists on its definition or its purpose, nor does there exist any generally-agreed way of doing research in this field. In this paper I first look back at the streams of Multi-Agent Systems research, comparing them to Distributed Problem Solving, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Algorithms, Open Systems, and so forth, and I try to show what Multi-Agent Systems really are. Based on this analysis, I then suggest some aims and future directions for research in this field.
An earlier version of this paper was written in Japanese and included in JSSST Computer Software Vol.12, No. 1, January 1995.
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Tokoro, M. (1996). Agents: Towards a society in which humans and computers cohabitate. In: Perram, J.W., Müller, JP. (eds) Distributed Software Agents and Applications. MAAMAW 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61157-6_17
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