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Flexibility of Multiagent Systems

In: Multiagent Engineering

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  • Stefan Kirn

    (Universität Hohenheim)

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.

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  • Stefan Kirn, 2006. "Flexibility of Multiagent Systems," International Handbooks on Information Systems, in: Stefan Kirn & Otthein Herzog & Peter Lockemann & Otto Spaniol (ed.), Multiagent Engineering, chapter 3, pages 53-69, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ihichp:978-3-540-32062-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32062-8_4
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