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Multi-agent Systems—Terminology and Definitions

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Cognitive Multi-agent Systems

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 138))

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The field of distributed computing has been in existence for such a long time as the solution of one computing problem might be divided into more processors. Originally these processors used data linked to problem solving and their fundamental goal was to facilitate their parallelism and synchronization.

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Hajduk, M., Sukop, M., Haun, M. (2019). Multi-agent Systems—Terminology and Definitions. In: Cognitive Multi-agent Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 138. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93687-1_1

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