On Multiagent Systems
多Agent系统的研究

Since the early seventies,agent has been studied for more than twenty years. With the de-velopment of concurrency and distribution,multiagent system has become an studying trend. This artical mainly analyzes the internal characteristics of a multiagent system, briefly introduces the concept "agent",which is the basic unit of a multiagent system. Then adopts several criterions such as agent's autonomy,adaptivity to the dynamics,system architechture,control structure and so on to classify multiagent systems. As we know,coordination and cooperation are the key problems of a multiagent system,so we'll introduce some coordinating and cooperating methods.