Towards a standardization of multi-agent system framework

Fortunately, we are not the first to ask these questions, and researchers have already defined some helpful notions. First, authors have acknowledged that agents are entities within an environment, and that they can sense and act (not necessarily in that order). This means that agents are not isolated entities, and that they are able to communicate and collaborate with other entities. Simply put, agents that are not able to work together with other agents (humans included) are destined to become virtually useless.

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