Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is a subfield of Artificial intelligence research dedicated to the development of distributed solutions for complex problems regarded as requiring intelligence. DAI is closely related to and a predecessor of the field of Multi-Agent Systems ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is a subfield of Artificial intelligence research dedicated to the development of distributed solutions for complex problems regarded as requiring intelligence. DAI is closely related to and a predecessor of the field of Multi-Agent Systems. See the paper by Inman and Hewitt on some of the limitations of classic DAI. The key concept used in DPS and MABS is the abstraction called software agents. An agent is a virtual (or physical) autonomous entity that has an understanding of its environment and acts upon it. An agent is usually able to communicate with other agents in the same system to achieve a common goal, that one agent alone could not achieve.