Talk:Multi-agent system

message: This webpage is a stump, and it needs much work to become a proper wiki about MAS.
Dont you think?
Chris
:yeah this page in it's current state should probably just be merged with the Wikipedia article.
:wish i could remedy the situation, but i am not particularly knowledgeable about MASs so cannot write about them myself. 
:hope some guru does though.
===Multi-Agent Systems===
Multi-Agent Systems is a field of research in Computer Science which agregates Social Sciences, Game Theory, Grid Computing, Web Ontologies and other topics
...a multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of several agents, capable of mutual interaction. --is this what Massive is?  -RadRafe 20:21, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: By Christian:

message: Multi-Agent Systems is a field of research in Computer Science which agregates Social Sciences, Game Theory, Grid Computing, Web Ontologies and other topics
...a multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of several agents, capable of mutual interaction. --is this what Massive is?  -RadRafe 20:21, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Multi-Agent Systems

message: Since The Sims and The Sims 2, the popular EA/Maxis games, are MAS's in popular game form, would it be appropriate to include a link to The Sims? --Jay (Histrion) (talk • contribs) 19:12, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sims? 

message: The introduction at least has a self-reference. There may be other work required to fix it. Brian Jason Drake 03:37, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avoid self-references 

message: The present matter of this article more deserves the name "Wikipedia as a Mulit-Agent system". I feel lack of general description of MAS. However, the article is really interesting. The preceeding unsigned comment was added by 158.197.33.68 (contribs) 07:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No disputing this: To further understand multiagent systems within the context of a specific example, below is an analysis of wikipedia as an MAS. Please sign your posts on talk pages. Brian Jason Drake 08:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes, exactly. There should be a long general description of MAS, and a short concrete example (not the other way round, as it is now). It should perhaps look a bit more like the DCS-Wiki page for MAS --JFromm 13:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: Yes it's on multi agent systems, it just USES wikipedia as an example to illustrate how a MAS might work.
lols *giggle* smirk... (edit, the lols *giggle* smirk was directed at the snappy and seemingly hasty response of the poster above me....)
Anyways, original research, I found about only one or TWO "I" claims, such as 
'now, to continue this analysis'
(Yep, an I claim) Although the article seems to be VERY well written, described with the help of pictures, and uses a basic easy to understand model.
I think we should remove the template, as it's seemingly well off and functioning very well to serve it's purpose.
To inform accurately, honestly, and use up-to-date information on MAS and the theories  
(I think it includes theories, no need to correct me i'm wrong)
Because i'm heading off to other parts of the wikiverse, I may not return, but IF I DO!, i'll stay for a little while.
(This article is REALLY unattended, very few people seem to be even POSTING about it)
*shivers* :-)
Nateland 02:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  FTW? 

message: There is already a fairly good article on agent-based models.  This article could be merged with that one, and the examples of Wikipedia as a multi-agent system could be broken off as a separate article (except that it arguably constitutes original research).
--Rinconsoleao 07:42, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Agent-based models 

message: I am redirecting this page to agent-based models. IMO most of the content here is covered over there. Feel free to move anything critical into the other article. IMO the wikipedia debate is an essay, and constitutes original research. -- cmhTC 17:19, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: It looks to me that this article is alomost erased. Two months ago this article was a lot of information, which still needed a lot of work. . 
Now only a few sentences and links from this article are transfered into the Agent based model, see. 
This is unbelievable. I'm not an expert in the field of MAS, but I can see that for three years a lot iof editors made more then 300 contributions. I like to get into this some more. - Mdd 17:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is almost erased 

message: I started recreating this article because I believe that the concept of Multi Agent Systems has developed into a new paradigm in the field of AI, complex systems, computer science, economics and logic. There is enough scientific development to justify an own article. It just has to be severely improved.    
I do agree with Rinconsoleao that there is already a fairly good article on agent-based models. But this doesn't mean that this article automatically has to merge into that one. It's my experience that especially new scientific development grow into several closely related paradigms. Wikipedia should express and not suppress this. - Mdd 11:44, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recreation of the article 

message: What is the relationship between this idea and Multiple agent system? With such similar names (and descriptions), at the very least a disambiguation page is called for, at the most a merge. ---- CharlesGillingham 23:59, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean the relation with Agent based models? - Mdd 11:44, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I've added a brief section trying to clarify this and will be adding references.  The bottom-line is that although there is quite a bit of overlap in terms of software infrastructure and terminology between MAS and ABM, they really come from two different traditions.  MAS were developed largely from the engineering/computer science world to solve practical problems, whereas ABMs were largely developed in the natural sciences, such as physics, biology and ecology to explain complex emergent patterns.  The analogy would be between biological neuron model (part of computational neuroscience) and artificial neural network (typically considered part of machine learning), which both use neural networks, but with very different goals. --Lexor|Talk 05:01, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation with Agent-based models? 

message: I removed the following text for the momenent - Mdd 15:25, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed part of the article for the moment 

message: I removed the following example from the article for the moment - Mdd 15:25, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed the following example for the moment 

message: A example has been a lot of work, but in it's current form it doesn't fit in the article. I think an example like this would be better of in Wikisource. - Mdd 15:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: *Aglets - A lightweight system for mobile agents originally developed by IBM
*BRAHMS - software tools to develop and simulate multi-agent models of human and machine behavior
*Cougaar  - DARPA-funded system for developing agents and multiagent systems 
*Jack - Commercial agent system development kit
*JADE - Java Agent DEvelopment Framework
*A Methodology for the Development of Multi-Agent Systems using JADE
*JAS, LGPL JAS is a java library for creating agent based simulations.
*Jason, LGPL Framework for BDI multi-agent simulation using AgentSpeak(L).
*LS/TS, Living Systems® Technology Suite - a commercial Eclipse based multi-agent development suite and runtime environment.
*Repast - Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit extended from Swarm
*SeSAm - SeSAm (Shell for Simulated Agent Systems) provides a generic environment for modelling and experimenting with reactive agent-based simulation.
*Spyse, LGPL environment for agent-based simulations with BDI support (3APL).
*Swarm, GPL'd software package for multi-agent simulation of complex systems
*TuCSoN, (Tuple Centres Spread over the Network) is a model and an infrastructure enabling and governing agent communication and coordination in Internet-based multiagent systems.
*VisualBots - Freeware multi-agent simulator in Microsoft Excel - Visual Basic syntax
*SPADES -System for Parallel Agent Discrete Event Simulation) is a middleware system for the creation of artificial intelligence agent-based simulations.
*Agent Factory Framework for constructing and deploying multi-agent systems that includes support for the deployment of mobile BDI agents on all Java-compatible devices including mobile phones and PDAs.
*FreeWalk/Q - FreeWalk is a platform where human participants and autonomous characters can socially interact with one another in a virtual city space.
* System Effectiveness Analysis Simulation (SEAS) - The US Air Force's Multi-Agent Theater Operations Simulation
A year ago this article containt the above listing of Multi-agent system developments. I wonder if they should not be replaced in the article again - Mdd 15:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The listing of Multi-agent system development tools removed 

message: I removed the folowing list of external links:
  
* The Brookings Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
* UCLA Human Complex Systems Program with recent online  publications.
* The Multi-Agent Systems Lab at U. Mass
* Teamcore Research Group at USC
* AgentWise Research Group at KULeuven, Belgium
* Agent Technology Group at CTU, Prague
* The Collective Agent Based Systems group at the Delft University
* The Multiagent & Cooperative Robotics Lab at Kansas State University
* Agent technology Roadmap
* MultiAgent systems
* Java-based Multi-Agent Systems
* The Maia Institute
* UMBC Agent News. (It seems that this site has not been updated since 2003)
* SwarmWiki, a collaborative resource for agent-based modelling.
* MASLAB - Multiagent Systems Lab. at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
* A Methodology for the Development of Multi-Agent Systems using JADE
* System Effectiveness Analysis Simulation (SEAS) - The US Air Force's Multi-Agent Theater Operations Simulation
* Intelligent Software Agents - The Robotics Institute's research group dedicated to Intelligent Agents
* Center for Models of Life - Niels Bohr Institute
* Multi-Agent - Magenta Technology's technological website on Multi-Agent Systems
;Multi-agent system development tools
* NetLogo - cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment.
* VisualBots - Freeware multi-agent simulator in Microsoft Excel - Visual Basic syntax.
* MASON - a fast discrete-event multiagent simulation library core in Java.
* REPAST - agent-based modeling toolkit.
* agentTool - an Eclipse-based development environment for the analysis and design of multiagent systems using the Organization-based Multiagent Systems Engineering Methdodology
* JIAC - Java-based Intelligent Agent Componentware
=== Further  comments ===
It seems to me that:
# This list should only contain of links that explain "Multi-agent system"
# General links to research institutes are not acceptable here  
# I removed the list of Multi-agent system development tools allready last year. This seems all linkspam to me. 
# Papers (notable enough) should be in the further reading section. 
I will recheck this links I removed to see if any of those links comply with these terms. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 12:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links removed 

message: It seems to me that:
# This list should only contain of links that explain "Multi-agent system"
# General links to research institutes are not acceptable here  
# I removed the list of Multi-agent system development tools allready last year. This seems all linkspam to me. 
# Papers (notable enough) should be in the further reading section. 
I will recheck this links I removed to see if any of those links comply with these terms. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 12:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further  comments 

message: This page is in need of some concrete real world application examples. Right now this section only states that multi-agent systems are used here and there. Giving some actual names would help a lot. Mihai Damian (talk) 12:04, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concrete applications examples 

message: Hello, a MAS modeller. Just wanted to tell you that the experimentation we do in  MAS are SIMULATIONS and not EMULATIONS. Go and read the difference between EMULATE and SIMULATE, you will se we do not "translate" any machine instructions or whatnot. 
I will change this... however due to the history of my wikipedia changes I assume it will be reverted or ignored by any of the "head honchos".
bye.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.124.243.233 (talk) 08:26, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  We do not perform COMPUTER EMULATIONS, we perform COMPUTER SIMULATIONS 

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