A multi-agent system (MAS) is a collection of software agents that work in conjunction with each other. They may cooperate or they may compete, or some combination of cooperation and competition, but there is some common infrastructure that result in the collection being a 'system', as opposed to simply being a disjoint set of autonomous agents.
A multi-agent system is either a closed multi-agent system or an open multi-agent system.
A multi-agent system may or may not be a distributed multi-agent system.
Alternative definition: A multi-agent system (MAS) is a computational system where agents cooperate or compete with others to achieve some individual or collective task.
Singular of multi-agent systems.
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