Authors

1. Dr. Rajveer S Shekhawat

Affiliation

• Senior Scientist, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, Rajasthan

Abstract

With the empowerment of computing with the high-speed networks, AI has found a new incarnation namely Distributed AI, which can now solve some the real life problems using distributed versions of the AI algorithms. A new orientation to the application of AI has emerged termed as agents, which can reason on their own given the goals and the capability to glean the environmental information. With the replacement of wired communication by wireless protocols, the agents can be made more versatile in terms of mobility and constraint free communication. This has enabled DAI to be extended to colonies of agents opening a whole new frontier of research for imitating social behavior of the intelligent agent societies which can cooperate and/or compete to achieve individual or group objectives. This paper introduces the concept of DAI and the enabling technologies for its implementation followed by the application to multi-agents. The different issues involved in each of the theme are briefly discussed.

Keywords

AI, DAI

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