Flexibility of Multiagent Systems

Stefan Kirn ()
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Stefan Kirn: Universität Hohenheim

Chapter 3 in Multiagent Engineering, 2006, pp 53-69 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The most important promise of multiagent technology is flexibility. Multiagent technology enhances the adaptability of IT systems in two ways: it facilitates “external” maintenance and it increases their own capabilities to perform necessary adaptations by themselves. These are important contributions to the competitiveness of enterprises as they increase their capabilities to react appropriately to changes in their markets, to meet their customers’ demands better than before, and to take greater advantage of new market opportunities than would otherwise be possible. This contribution develops a formal framework for the description, and analysis of the flexibility of multiagent systems. It elaborates this framework in much detail and evaluates it on the basis of examples from the field of multiagent engineering.

Keywords: Requirement Engineering; Multiagent System; Flexible Manufacture System; Agent Platform; Flexibility Framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32062-8_4

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