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The paper investigates the possibility of multi-agent systems application in distributed computation illustrated by an example of generic distributed computation multi-agent system. The system is defined upon finite state machine architecture with agent internal and external behavior. For testing purpose, the model was implemented in Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM). FCM is qualitative modeling and simulation technique that is based on discrete distributed computation. Our proposed multi-agent system has shown expected characteristics so the conclusion is that the proposed generic model could be used as a foundation for building distributed computation multi-agent systems.
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Štula, M., Stipaničev, D., Šerić, L. (2012). Multi-Agent Systems in Distributed Computation. In: Jezic, G., Kusek, M., Nguyen, NT., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30947-2_68
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