Modelling Large Complex Systems Using Multi-agent Technology

Abstract

The paper outlines a method for modelling largescale commercial, social, socio-technological and engineering problems. The method is derived from twelve years of experience in designing and implementing large complex systems for real-time scheduling of taxis, air taxis, car rentals, seagoing tankers, trucks, space crafts; dynamic data mining; dynamic knowledge discovery and semantic search. The same approach has been also used for designing adaptive engineering systems and for research into social issues such as eradication of poverty.