A multiagent interaction paradigm for physiological process control

Multiagent systems are powerful and flexible tools for controlling complex phenomena. The complexity of a phenomenon can be tackled in such a way that each agent embeds the controller for a portion of the phenomenon [3]. In this perspective, the interaction among the agents results in a complex controller for the whole phenomenon. The actions the agents undertake to control their portions of the phenomenon may conflict, as a result of the "overlapping" of the controlled portions; hence a mediated interaction is needed. A class of complex phenomena that present several difficulties in their satisfactory modeling and controlling is the class of physiological processes.We illustrate the negotiation paradigm of a general regulating multiagent architecture called anthropic agency.