Evaluation of Environment Contextual Services in Multiagent Systems

The environment is a powerful first-order abstraction in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), as well as a critical building block. The agents interact in their environment and the effects of their actions are observed and evaluated through this environment. The local complexity of the agents depends on its management of the interaction and action processes. If the environment carries out a part of this processes, the complexity of the agents is reduced. This delegating process implies a centralization of a part of the MAS computations inside the environment and therefore a flexible way to exchange information and to coordinate the agents.

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