Wikipedia as a Multi Agent System

July 23, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Collaboration Research & Science (54)

Here is an interesting article which uses Wikipedia as an example of a collaborative multi-agent system (MAS) involving both human and non-human agents. The same approach could be used to map any collaborative system.

The author identifies seven dimensions of a MAS and illustrates each dimension using Wikipedia:

Tasks

Agents

Control Flow

Data Flow

Message Content

Message Timing

Culture and Resources

To read the article click here

One slightly ironic point to note is that wikipedia itself flags this article with a health warning because they believe it may violate their “no-original research” rule!

For more on Agents see Virtual team member autonomy: learn from software agents

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Could cell phones destroy civilisation

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