Agent-Based Computing

'''Agent-Based Computing''' is the name for the attempt to use [[Multi-Agent System]]s for computational 
purposes. Ideally agents work together to achieve a common collective goal.
Another name is for the same approach is [[AOSE]]. A collection of agents is more
like a society than a machine, with all the problems common societies have, and
it is not easy to build such systems. A society usually contains several
organizations, which have to be specified. What is the right balance
between planned or imposed organization and self-organization, between heteronomy 
(governed by an external rule) and autonomy (governed by internal rules) ?
If you can use the concept of [[Self-Organization|self-organization]] alone to build these systems
is unclear. The engineering of self-organizing applications ([[ESOA]]) is
a field of its own.

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