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What is Agent-Based Solution

Chapter 192
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
A solution to a decision-making problem which considers the existence of agents as autonomous decision making units contributing to the solution of the problem.
Published in Chapter:
Social Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems
Vladimir Marík (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) and Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch192
Abstract
The development in the recent decade has proven that the multi-agent paradigm represents a challenging framework for solving very complex tasks of cooperation in virtual organizations. Each partner/unit engaged in a virtual organization can be considered as an autonomous unit with its own resources, knowledge and goals and represented by a corresponding software module—a software agent.
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