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Intelligent agents and multiagent societies are becoming a recurrent solution to complex distributed artificial intelligence problems. Some of the agent properties determine the sort of problems that they can solve efficiently. Here, we describe a complex environmental process, Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is difficult to control. An agent- based architecture is proposed, which improves some previous works on Intelligent Systems which are not based on agents. The proposed archi- tecture is described and several specific-purpose agents are designed for that problem and their interactions explicated.
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Riaño, D., Sànchez-Marrè, M., R.-Roda, I. (2001). Autonomous Agents Architecture to Supervise and Control a Wastewater Treatment Plant. In: Monostori, L., Váncza, J., Ali, M. (eds) Engineering of Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2070. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45517-5_88
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