TY - CHAP AU - Keinosuke Matsumoto AU - Akifumi Tanimoto AU - Naoki Mori ED - Faisal Alkhateeb ED - Eslam Al Maghayreh ED - Iyad Abu Doush Y1 - 2011-04-01 PY - 2011 T1 - A Dependable Multi-Agent System with Self-Diagnosable Function N2 - A multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can be used to solve problems which are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or monolithic system to solve. Agent systems are open and extensible systems that allow for the deployment of autonomous and proactive software components. Multi-agent systems have been brought up and used in several application domains. BT - Multi-Agent Systems SP - Ch. 10 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/14455 DO - 10.5772/14455 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -