Most research on multi-agent systems focuses on the coordinative intelligent behaviour among a collection of autonomous intelligent agents considering that the group of agents provides more than the sum of the capabilities of its members
The adoption of multi-agent technology is based on 3 fundamental system domain characteristics:
data, control, expertise or resources are inherently distributed
the system is naturally regarded as a society of autonomous cooperating components
the system contains legacy components that must interact with other, possibly new software components.
