Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Theory, Methods and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 398
Special Issue Editors
Interests: distributed optimization and applications; multi-agent learning
Interests: multi-agent reinforcement learning and applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent is an autonomous entity which observes through sensors and acts upon an environment using actuators and directs its activity towards achieving goals. Intelligent agents may also learn or use knowledge to achieve their goals. Intelligent agents in artificial intelligence are closely related to agents in economics, and versions of the intelligent agent paradigm are studied in cognitive science, ethics, the philosophy of practical reason, as well as in many interdisciplinary socio-cognitive modeling and computer social simulations. A multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can be used to solve problems that are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or a monolithic system to solve. Multi-agent systems consist of agents and their environment. Typically, multi-agent system research refers to software agents. However, the agents in a multi-agent system could equally be robots, humans or human teams. A multi-agent system may contain combined human-agent teams.
In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in the fields of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, including theory, methods and applications. Both theoretical and experimental studies are welcome, as well as comprehensive review and survey papers.
Dr. Xiangfeng Wang
Dr. Bo Jin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-agent systems
- multi-agent learning
- multi-agent optimization
- multi-agent cooperation
- multi-agent competition
- multi-agent applications in robotics, social science, medicine
