Agents

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Agents Up Close

Agents: An Overview
 Agents are the decision-making components in complex adaptive systems. Agents have sets of rules or behavior patterns that allow them to take in information, process the inputs, and then effect changes in the outside environment. The information processing within agents typically includes some form of adaptation in complex adaptive systems. The other main source is structural change in the system itself in the form of the relationships between agents.
 As shown in figure 3.1, anything that makes choices in a business can be viewed as an agent.  Executives, managers, nd other decision-makers can be modeled as agents. Organizations can be modeled as agents. Computer systems can be modeled as agents. Naturally, agents form the core of ABMS.
 In ABMS, an agent is an individual with a set of attributes and behavioral characteristics as shown in figure 3.2. The attributes define what a given agent is. The behavioral characteristics define what a given agent does. Typically, there is variation among many of the agents in the model.
 

Agents

 Agent：综述
 Agent是复杂的适应性系统的决策类组件。Agent有它们的一系列规则，或者说是规则模式，这能够让它们获取信息，处理输入数据，进而对外界环境产生影响和变化。在Agent中被处理的信息通常包括一些形式的适应和学习行为。而这就是几个复杂的适应型系统的一到两个适应行为之一，将会在第4章被提到。另外一个主要的途径就是系统自己的结构性变化，这是以Agent之间的相互关系的形式来体现的。
 在ABMS中，一个Agent是一个拥有一些属性和行为特征的个体。属性定义了这个给定的Agent是何物，行为特征定义了这个给定的Agent能做什么，通常的，模型中的各个Agent在以上两方面，会各有其不同之处。