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In our research we’ve tried to build an analogy between classical thermodynamic systems like ideal gas and cyberspace multi-agent system (MAS). As analogue to MAS sustainability we suggest to use entropy, which reflects disorganization level of the system. To calculate changes of MAS entropy we introduce concepts of energy and temperature for MAS. Set of agents’ “microstates” is associated with “macrostate” of MAS as a whole, i.e. without prejudice to the expressive power of the system description it becomes possible to evaluate sustainability of MAS in case of aggressive actions from its' environment. Thus, monitoring MAS entropy parameter at the design stage and during maintenance of the system will allow to predict, detect and suppress energy dissipation processes in case of threats to system sustainability.
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Zegzhda, D.P., Stepanova, T.V. Thermodynamic approach to modeling multi-agent systems in cyberspace. Aut. Control Comp. Sci. 49, 622–626 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0146411615080398
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