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Co-ordination in Multi-Agents System

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System
A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming an integrated whole. Every system is delineated by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.
System
A system is defined as any combination of matter that we wish to study
Earl Bowman Millard (1946). Physical chemistry for colleges: a course of instruction. p. 30.
System
Everyone knows what engineering is. All that's left is to define systems, and I'm not fool enough to do that.
Robert Machol (1971) in: Paul Lewis "Mathmaticians Are Useful." The California Tech. May 6, 1971. p. 1: Machol explains his definition of systems engineering.
System
Some engineering artifacts are most easily analysed, described, or designed as an assembly of simpler parts. Artifacts of this kind are called systems. Some systems have the property that flowing through them are streams of some 'working fluid' (which may be matter, energy, or information), in such a way that the 'working fluid' passes in turn through many parts of the system, which is in consequence termed a sequential (or flow) system. Examples are a chemical plant, an electrical power distribution network, a digital computer, a sewer system. Systems which do not have this property are termed associative systems of which examples are a motor car, an aircraft, or a bridge - - it is with (sequential) systems that the theory of system design has primarily been developed.
William Gosling (1962). The design of engineering systems. New York, Wiley
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