A Unified View on Regulation Management in Multi-Agent Systems
摘要
Regulating multi-agent system (MAS) to achieve a balance between the autonomy of agents and the control of the system is still a challenge. Regulation management in MAS has been conceptualized from various perspectives in the literature, whose intersections open up a wide range of design options. We propose a unified view on regulation management in MAS that identifies the range of design options with respect to three perspectives: the regulation capabilities, the multi-agent oriented programming dimensions, and the architectural style. We use our unified view to review and classify existing MAS frameworks in the literature, highlighting the dominant and underexplored views on regulation management in MAS.