Editing Multi-agent system (section)

=== Characteristics ===

The agents in a multi-agent system have several important characteristics:<ref>{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Wooldridge |title=An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |year=2002 |pages=366 |isbn=978-0-471-49691-5}}</ref>

* Autonomy: agents at least partially independent, self-aware, [[Autonomous agent|autonomous]]
* Local views: no agent has a full global view, or the system is too complex for an agent to exploit such knowledge
* Decentralization: no agent is designated as controlling (or the system is effectively reduced to a monolithic system)<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Liviu |last1=Panait |first2=Sean |last2=Luke |url=http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/papers/panait05cooperative.pdf|title=Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning: The State of the Art |journal=Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=387–434 |year=2005 |doi=10.1007/s10458-005-2631-2|citeseerx=10.1.1.307.6671 |s2cid=19706 }}</ref>