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Moskowitz is a mathematician at NRL (who holds three patents). The
authors explore the idea of creating and deploying online agents as their
way of crafting emergent configurations (EC). As part of this structure, their
method entails the management of complexity through the use of dynam-
ically emergent meta-agents forming a holonic system. From their perspec-
tive, in the context of their research, these meta-agents are agents existing
inside of a software paradigm where they are able to reason and utilize their
reasoning to construct and deploy other agents with special purposes for
which they are able to form an EC. As the authors note, the kind of reason-
ing models that can support the idea of meta-agents in the context of an EC
have not been well explored, which they proceed to perform and report on
in their chapter. To realize an EC using meta-agents, the authors first discuss
the management of the complexity that a problem creates, then they develop
a multiagent framework capable of supporting meta-agents, and, finally, the
authors explore and review known reasoning models. They give an example
with a service-oriented architecture (SOA), they test it with an automated
evaluation process, and they introduce holon agents. Holonic agents are
intelligent agents able to work independently and as part of a hierarchy.
They are simultaneously complete in and of themselves and are able to inter-
act independently with the environment, yet they can also be a part of a hier-
archy. A holon is something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. The
idea of a holon began with Koestler (1967/1990), who introduced it as part
of a duality between emotion and reason. As the authors note, the number of
IoT devices is expected to exceed a billion, making computations and
searches among the devices complex and difficult. With their approach they
hope to simplify the process. The authors recommend the development of
standards in the searches to be made for the discovery of IoT devices.

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