scholarly journals Retracted: Multi-Agent Systems in Control Engineering: A Survey

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Keyword(s):  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent

scholarly journals Multi-Agent Systems in Control Engineering: A Survey

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Daneshfar ◽  
Hassan Bevrani
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Control Design ◽  
Multi Agent System ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Engineering Environment ◽  
Multi Agent

This paper presents a survey on multi-agent system (MAS) capabilities in control engineering applications. It describes essential concepts of multi-agent systems that are related to the control systems and presents an overview on the most important control engineering issues which MAS can be explored. Most important technical aspects in MAS implementation and development in engineering environment are also explained. Design methodologies, standards, tools, and supporting technologies to provide an effective MAS-based control design are addressed and a discussion on important related standards and protocols is given. Finally, some comments and new perspectives for design and implementation of agent-based control systems are presented.

scholarly journals Decentralized Markets versus Central Control: A Comparative Study

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 301-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Ygge ◽  
H. Akkermans
Keyword(s):  
Central Control ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Climate Control ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Market Communication ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Decentralized Markets ◽  
Made In

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) promise to offer solutions to problems where established, older paradigms fall short. In order to validate such claims that are repeatedly made in software agent publications, empirical in-depth studies of advantages and weaknesses of multi-agent solutions versus conventional ones in practical applications are needed. Climate control in large buildings is one application area where multi-agent systems, and market-oriented programming in particular, have been reported to be very successful, although central control solutions are still the standard practice. We have therefore constructed and implemented a variety of market designs for this problem, as well as different standard control engineering solutions. This article gives a detailed analysis and comparison, so as to learn about differences between standard versus agent approaches, and yielding new insights about benefits and limitations of computational markets. An important outcome is that ``local information plus market communication produces global control''.

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