Systems, Actors and Agents: Operation in a multicomponent environment
This addresses a foundational issue in multi-agent systems for fields like physics and biology, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of conventional multi-agent and multicomponent system models lacking diverse time scales, by constructing models with concurrency and action diversity, resulting in a mathematical system actor model with studied properties.
Multi-agent approach has become popular in computer science and technology. However, the conventional models of multi-agent and multicomponent systems implicitly or explicitly assume existence of absolute time or even do not include time in the set of defining parameters. At the same time, it is proved theoretically and validated experimentally that there are different times and time scales in a variety of real systems - physical, chemical, biological, social, informational, etc. Thus, the goal of this work is construction of a multi-agent multicomponent system models with concurrency of processes and diversity of actions. To achieve this goal, a mathematical system actor model is elaborated and its properties are studied.