Featuring the latest and most promising research directions in agent-based optimization, this volume focuses on approaches deploying the multi-agent system paradigm to support, enhance, or even replace traditional solutions to optimization problems.

This volume presents a collection of original research works by leading specialists focusing on novel and promising approaches in which the multi-agent system paradigm is used to support, enhance or replace traditional approaches to solving difficult optimization problems. The editors have invited several well-known specialists to present their solutions, tools, and models falling under the common denominator of the agent-based optimization. The book consists of eight chapters covering examples of application of the multi-agent paradigm and respective customized tools to solve difficult...