TY - CHAP
T1 - Engineering Multi-Agent Systems for the Web of Things
AU - Vachtsevanou, Danai
AU - Lemée, Jérémy
AU - Mayer, Simon
AU - Ciortea, Andrei
PY - 2026/6/12
Y1 - 2026/6/12
N2 - As the World Wide Web expands to include not only virtual services and human users, but also physical devices through the Web of Things and diverse forms of artificial intelligence (AI), there is a growing need to revisit the core design principles for Web-based multi-agent systems (MAS). This chapter presents an approach for engineering hypermedia multi-agent systems (hMAS), addressing the design of MAS environments, agents, and possible actions on the Web. Rooted in the Web's architectural principles, the hMAS concept defines a uniform hypermedia abstraction layer for dynamic, scalable, and open MAS, where agents discover, reason about, and exploit new action possibilities through signifiers. At the same time, hMAS lays the conceptual and technical foundations for interactions of established and emerging types of intelligence, such as humans, cognitive agents, and generative AI on the Web of Things and on the broader Web.
AB - As the World Wide Web expands to include not only virtual services and human users, but also physical devices through the Web of Things and diverse forms of artificial intelligence (AI), there is a growing need to revisit the core design principles for Web-based multi-agent systems (MAS). This chapter presents an approach for engineering hypermedia multi-agent systems (hMAS), addressing the design of MAS environments, agents, and possible actions on the Web. Rooted in the Web's architectural principles, the hMAS concept defines a uniform hypermedia abstraction layer for dynamic, scalable, and open MAS, where agents discover, reason about, and exploit new action possibilities through signifiers. At the same time, hMAS lays the conceptual and technical foundations for interactions of established and emerging types of intelligence, such as humans, cognitive agents, and generative AI on the Web of Things and on the broader Web.
KW - Engineering
KW - Web of Things
KW - artificial intelligence
UR - https://shop.elsevier.com/books/distributed-ai-in-the-modern-world/olaru/978-0-443-44679-5
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-44-344679-5.00012-6
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-44-344679-5.00012-6
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780443446795
T3 - Advances in Biomedical Informatics
SP - 21
EP - 39
BT - Distributed AI in the Modern World
A2 - Olaru, Andrei
A2 - Nardin, Luis Gustavo
A2 - Sorici, Alexandru
A2 - Florea, Adina Magda
PB - Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
ER -