Editing Multi-agent system (section)

== Research ==

The study of multi-agent systems is "concerned with the development and analysis of sophisticated [[artificial intelligence|AI]] problem-solving and control architectures for both single-agent and multiple-agent systems."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mas.cs.umass.edu/ |title=The Multi-Agent Systems Lab |publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] |access-date=Oct 16, 2009}}</ref> Research topics include:
* agent-oriented software engineering
* beliefs, desires, and intentions ([[BDI software agent|BDI]])
* [[Consensus dynamics|cooperation and coordination]]
* [[distributed constraint optimization]] (DCOPs)
* organization
* communication
* negotiation
* [[cooperative distributed problem solving|distributed problem solving]]
*[[multi-agent learning]]<ref>{{citation|first1=Stefano |last1=Albrecht |first2=Peter |last2=Stone |year=2017 |contribution=Multiagent Learning: Foundations and Recent Trends. Tutorial |title=IJCAI-17 conference |url=http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~larg/ijcai17_tutorial/multiagent_learning.pdf}}</ref>
* [[agent mining]] 
* scientific communities (e.g., on biological flocking, language evolution, and economics)<ref>{{ cite journal | last =Cucker | first =Felipe | author2=Steve Smale | year =2007 | title =The Mathematics of Emergence | journal = Japanese Journal of Mathematics | volume = 2| pages = 197–227| url =http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~smale/papers/math-of-emergence.pdf | access-date = 2008-06-09 | doi =10.1007/s11537-007-0647-x | s2cid =2637067 | author2-link =Stephen Smale }}</ref><ref>{{ cite journal | last =Shen | first =Jackie (Jianhong) | year =2008 | title =Cucker–Smale Flocking under Hierarchical Leadership | journal =SIAM J. Appl. Math. | volume =68 | issue =3 | pages = 694–719| url =http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=SMJMAP000068000003000694000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes | access-date = 2008-06-09 | doi =10.1137/060673254 | arxiv =q-bio/0610048| s2cid =14655317 }}
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* dependability and fault-tolerance
* robotics,<ref>{{citation|last1=Ahmed |first1=S. |pages=459 |last2=Karsiti |first2=M.N. |url=http://eprints.utp.edu.my/320/|title=2007 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology |year=2007|doi=10.1109/EIT.2007.4374547|contribution=A testbed for control schemes using multi agent nonholonomic robots |isbn=978-1-4244-0940-2 |s2cid=2734931 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> multi-robot systems (MRS), robotic clusters
* multi-agent systems also present possible applications in microrobotics,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yang |first1=Lidong |last2=Li |first2=Zhang |year=2021 |title=Motion control in magnetic microrobotics: From individual and multiple robots to swarms |journal=Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems |volume=4 |pages=509–534 |doi=10.1146/annurev-control-032720-104318|s2cid=228892228 }}</ref> where the physical interaction between the agents are exploited to perform complex tasks such as manipulation and assembly of passive components.
* language model-based multi-agent systems<ref name=li2023></ref>