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1.FUNDAMENTALS OF ARTİFİCİAL INTELLİGENCE AGENTS .............................................................................. 6

1.1 THE CONCEPT OF AN INTELLİGENT AGENT ................................................................................................................ 6

Formal Definition and Rationality ................................................................................................................... 6
PEAS (Performance, Environment, Actuators, Sensors) Framework .............................................................. 7
Differentiation from AI Models, Assistants, and Bots ..................................................................................... 7
1.2 THE PERCEPTİON-ACTİON CYCLE: THE CORE OF AGENT BEHAVİOR ............................................................................... 9
Stages of the Cycle .......................................................................................................................................... 9
Embodied Intelligence and the Sensorimotor Loop ........................................................................................ 9
Case Study: The Perception-Action Cycle in Autonomous Vehicles .............................................................. 10
1.3 CLASSİCAL AGENT TYPES AND CLASSİFİCATİON ........................................................................................................ 12
1.4 ARTİFİCİAL INTELLİGENCE AGENT ARCHİTECTURES ................................................................................................... 15
Reactive Architecture .................................................................................................................................... 15
Deliberative (Cognitive) Architecture ............................................................................................................ 15
Hybrid Architecture ....................................................................................................................................... 15
BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) Architecture .................................................................................................... 16
Layered Architecture ..................................................................................................................................... 16
Integration of LLMs into Architectures ......................................................................................................... 17
2.MULTİ-AGENT SYSTEMS (MAS) ................................................................................................................. 22

2.1: OVERVİEW OF MULTİ-AGENT SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................ 22

Definition and Importance: The Cornerstone of Distributed Intelligence ..................................................... 22
Agent Relationship Types: A Typology of Interaction Dynamics................................................................... 23
The Complexity of Multi-Agent System Design ............................................................................................. 23
Architectural Analysis: The Analogy Between MAS and Microservice Architecture ..................................... 24
2.2.INTERACTİON DYNAMİCS İN MAS ........................................................................................................................ 27
The Emergence of Cooperation and Competition ......................................................................................... 27
Interaction Mechanisms................................................................................................................................ 27
Conflict/Disagreement: Advantage or Disadvantage? ................................................................................. 28
Fault Tolerance: Redundancy and Decentralized Control ............................................................................. 29
Collective Intelligence and Error Correction .................................................................................................. 29
Cost-Benefit Analysis ..................................................................................................................................... 30
2.3. MULTİ-AGENT REİNFORCEMENT LEARNİNG (MARL).............................................................................................. 31
Definition and Development ......................................................................................................................... 31
Challenges: The "Curses" of MARL ................................................................................................................ 31
2.4: MULTİ-AGENT COORDİNATİON........................................................................................................................... 35
Definition and Purpose .................................................................................................................................. 35
Mechanisms and Applications ...................................................................................................................... 35
Challenges and Future Directions ................................................................................................................. 36
2.5: MULTİ-AGENT NEGOTİATİON ............................................................................................................................. 39
Definition and Importance ............................................................................................................................ 39
Negotiation Mechanisms .............................................................................................................................. 39
Challenges ..................................................................................................................................................... 40
2.6: DİSTRİBUTED PROBLEM SOLVİNG (DPS)............................................................................................................... 43
Definition and Motivation ............................................................................................................................. 43
Models and Algorithms: Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) ............................................................... 43
Applications ................................................................................................................................................... 44
Challenges and Future Directions ................................................................................................................. 44
CONCLUSİON ......................................................................................................................................................... 46
Key Takeaways: ............................................................................................................................................. 46

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Future Outlook: ............................................................................................................................................. 46

3: ADVANCED TOPİCS AND APPLİCATİONS OF AI AGENTS ............................................................................. 55

3.1.PHİLOSOPHİCAL AND ETHİCAL DİMENSİONS OF AI AGENTS ....................................................................................... 55

3.1.1 Ontological Debates on Meaning and Intelligence .............................................................................. 55
3.1.2 Responsibility and Accountability in Autonomous Systems ................................................................. 60
3.1.3 Agentive Goal Dynamics and Safety .................................................................................................... 62
3.2.LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED MULTİ-AGENT SYSTEMS ...................................................................................... 65
3.2.1 LLM-MAS Architectures and Collaboration Mechanisms .................................................................... 65
3.2.2 Prominent Applications and Case Studies ............................................................................................ 67
3.2.3 Key Challenges and Future Research Directions .................................................................................. 68
CONCLUSİON ......................................................................................................................................................... 71

4.AUTOGEN: A MULTİ-AGENT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK ........................................................................ 77

4.1.INTRODUCTİON TO AUTOGEN ............................................................................................................................. 77

What is Agentic AI?: Definition of Agentic AI and Its Differentiation from Generative AI ........................... 77
What is AutoGen? What is its Purpose?: The "Conversation Programming" Philosophy ............................ 78
4.2.AUTOGEN COMPONENTS AND ARCHİTECTURE ....................................................................................................... 80
AutoGen Components: A Detailed Examination of the Building Blocks........................................................ 80
Working Mechanism: Event-Driven and Asynchronous Architecture ........................................................... 82
Built-in Messages: The Structured Communication Protocol ....................................................................... 83
4.3.AUTOGEN'S PLACE İN THE ECOSYSTEM ................................................................................................................. 85
Difference from Semantic Kernel: Orchestration and Agent Philosophy ...................................................... 85
Counterparts: MetaGPT and AgentVerse ..................................................................................................... 86
Comparative Analysis: Philosophical and Architectural Differences ............................................................ 86
4.4.ADVANCED CAPABİLİTİES WİTH AUTOGEN ............................................................................................................. 89
Types of Agents that Can Be Created: Specialized Roles .............................................................................. 89
What is a Function Call? How Does AutoGen Use It? ................................................................................... 90
Why Are Agent-Based Approaches Superior to Function-Based Ones?........................................................ 90
How is Chain-of-Thought Advanced? ............................................................................................................ 91
How Does It Affect Solution Quality? ............................................................................................................ 92
Advantages and Disadvantages.................................................................................................................... 93
The Point Reachable Within 5 Years ............................................................................................................. 93
Protection from Collective Error.................................................................................................................... 94
Is Responding with Multiple Agents an Unnecessary Cost? ......................................................................... 95
4.5.PRACTİCAL DEVELOPMENT WİTH AUTOGEN (EXAMPLES) ......................................................................................... 97
Basic Agent Construction (.NET) ................................................................................................................... 97
Communication with GenerateReplyAsync & SendAsync Methods (.NET) ................................................... 97
Streaming Chat: Stream-Based Responses ................................................................................................... 98
Middlewares: Process Control with Middleware (.NET) ............................................................................... 99
Function Call (.NET Example) ........................................................................................................................ 99
Making Multiple Agents Converse Among Themselves .............................................................................. 100
Quick Start with Python Agents (LangChain Integration) ........................................................................... 100

5. SELF-LEARNİNG AND AUTONOMOUS DEVELOPMENT OF AI AGENTS ...................................................... 108

INTRODUCTİON: THE PARADİGM SHİFT TOWARDS SELF-LEARNİNG AGENTS ..................................................................... 108

5.1. SELF-PLAY: STRATEGY MASTERY THROUGH COMPETİTİVE SELF-DİSCOVERY .............................................................. 109
5.1.1. Theoretical Foundations: Game Theory and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning ......................... 109
5.1.2. The Pinnacle in Perfect Information Games: The AlphaZero Paradigm ........................................... 110
5.1.3. Expansion into Imperfect Information: DeepNash and Cicero.......................................................... 111

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5.2. SELF-IMPROVİNG SYSTEMS: NEW ARCHİTECTURES FOR AGENT EVOLUTİON .............................................................. 112
5.2.1. SEAL: Language Models That Update Their Weights with Self-Editing ............................................ 112
5.2.2. Overcoming Data Dependency: ARC-AGI Success and Potential Applications ................................. 112
5.2.3. Towards Open-Ended Evolution: The Darwin Gödel Machine .......................................................... 113
5.3. CURRİCULUM LEARNİNG: STRUCTURİNG THE PATH TO MASTERY ............................................................................ 115
5.3.1. The Principle of Staged Learning and Its Theoretical Advantages ................................................... 115
5.3.2. Methods: From Manual Design to Automatic Curriculum Learning ................................................. 115
5.3.3. Application Areas and Case Studies .................................................................................................. 116
5.4. INTRİNSİC MOTİVATİON: THE BİRTH OF CURİOSİTY AND EXPLORATİON ..................................................................... 118
5.4.1. Conceptual Framework: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards .................................................................. 118
5.4.2. Curiosity-Driven Exploration Algorithms ........................................................................................... 118
5.4.3. Advantages of Exploration and Application Examples ..................................................................... 119
5.5. SYNTHESİS AND FUTURE PERSPECTİVES: THE CONVERGENCE OF SELF-LEARNİNG PARADİGMS....................................... 120
5.5.1. Hybrid Architectures and Synergies .................................................................................................. 120
5.5.2. Continual Learning and the Problem of Catastrophic Forgetting ..................................................... 120
5.5.3. Ethical and Security Dimensions of Self-Improving Agents............................................................... 121
CONCLUSİON: THE DAWN OF AUTONOMOUS INTELLİGENCE AND OUR RESPONSİBİLİTİES ................................................... 122

6.HUMAN-AGENT INTERACTİON ................................................................................................................ 128

INTRODUCTİON..................................................................................................................................................... 128
6.1.NATURAL INTERACTİON INTERFACES ................................................................................................................... 128
6.1.1: Language and Speech Interfaces – The role of natural language processing and speech technologies
in the interaction of artificial intelligence agents with humans ................................................................. 128
6.1.2: Visual and Haptic Interfaces – Visual perception and haptic feedback enable agents to have a richer
interaction with the physical world............................................................................................................. 134
6.2.TRUST AND EXPLAİNABİLİTY .............................................................................................................................. 139
6.2.1: Explainable AI and Trust – Making agents' decision-making processes transparent increases the
trust human users have in them ................................................................................................................. 139
6.2.2.Human-Agent Team Dynamics – In environments where humans and autonomous agents work as a
joint team, trust, role distribution, and communication are of critical importance ................................... 142
Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 145

7.TESTİNG, EVALUATİON, VERİFİCATİON, AND VALİDATİON OF ARTİFİCİAL INTELLİGENCE AGENTS: A

COMPREHENSİVE ANALYSİS ....................................................................................................................... 156

INTRODUCTİON..................................................................................................................................................... 156
7.1.PERFORMANCE METRİCS AND BENCHMARKİNG .................................................................................................... 157
1.1. Task Success and Efficiency Metrics ..................................................................................................... 157
1.2. Security and Robustness Tests ............................................................................................................. 165
2.VERİFİCATİON AND VALİDATİON (V&V) METHODS .................................................................................................. 170
2.1. Testing in Simulation Environments..................................................................................................... 170
2.2. Formal Verification Techniques............................................................................................................ 176
CONCLUSİON ....................................................................................................................................................... 181

8.DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGİES FOR ARTİFİCİAL INTELLİGENCE AGENTS .............................................. 188

INTRODUCTİON..................................................................................................................................................... 188
8.1.AGENT-ORİENTED SOFTWARE ENGİNEERİNG........................................................................................................ 189
8.1.1: Design Patterns and Architectures ................................................................................................... 189
8.1.2: Development Processes and Tools .................................................................................................... 200
8.2: DEPLOYMENT AND LİFECYCLE MANAGEMENT ...................................................................................................... 207
8.2.1: Real System Integration and Deployment ........................................................................................ 207

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8.2.2: Continuous Monitoring and Update ................................................................................................. 212

9 SECURİTY AND ETHİCS İN ARTİFİCİAL INTELLİGENCE AGENTS ................................................................... 224

INTRODUCTİON..................................................................................................................................................... 224
9.1.SECURİTY THREATS AND DEFENSE ...................................................................................................................... 225
9.1.1: Adversarial Attacks and Resilience ................................................................................................... 225
9.1.2: System Security and Access Controls ................................................................................................ 231
9.2 ETHİCAL PRİNCİPLES AND REGULATİONS .............................................................................................................. 237
9.2.1: Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks ............................................................................................... 237
9.2.2: Responsibility and Accountability ..................................................................................................... 242
CONCLUSİON ....................................................................................................................................................... 249

10.ARTİFİCİAL INTELLİGENCE AGENTS: NEW TECHNOLOGİES AND TRENDS .................................................. 260

1: EMERGİNG AGENT TECHNOLOGİES ........................................................................................................................ 260

1.1.Big Language Model (LLM) Based Agents ............................................................................................. 260
1.2.Multimodal and Physical Agents ........................................................................................................... 263
2: ADVANCED LEARNİNG AND ADAPTATİON TECHNİQUES .............................................................................................. 267
2.1.Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) ....................................................................................... 267
2.2.Continuous Learning and Meta-Learning ............................................................................................. 269
CONCLUSİON ....................................................................................................................................................... 272

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1.Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Agents

The fundamental unifying theme of the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is the idea of the
intelligent agent.1 This unit aims to establish a solid conceptual foundation for this complex
and rapidly evolving technology by examining what artificial intelligence agents are, how
they work, and their basic classifications, in light of the field's foundational texts and modern
industrial applications. The concept of an agent serves as a bridge, filling the gap between
the theoretical "thought" of AI and the "action" of the real world.

1.1 The Concept of an Intelligent Agent

Understanding the concept of an "agent," the basic building block of an AI system, requires
clarifying its rationality, task environment, and its distinction from similar terminology. This
section introduces the topic by making these fundamental definitions.

Formal Definition and Rationality

In modern studies on artificial intelligence, an agent is defined as any entity that can
perceive its environment through sensors and act upon that environment through
actuators.1 This definition is quite broad and encompasses everything from biological beings
(e.g., a human using eyes and hands as sensors and actuators) to mechanical systems (e.g., a
robot with cameras and motors) and purely software entities (softbots).2 An agent's
behavior is mathematically described by the

agent function, which maps the percept sequence—the complete history of everything it
has perceived up to that point—to an action.3

What makes an agent "intelligent," or more accurately, "rational," is the outcome of its
actions. Rationality should not be confused with omniscience or perfection; an agent is
rational when it acts in a way that is expected to lead to the best outcome based on the
available information.4 The rationality of an agent at any given moment depends on four
fundamental factors 3:
1. Performance Measure: Defines the criterion for success. For example, for a vacuum
cleaner agent, this could be the amount of dirt cleaned.
2. Prior Knowledge of the Environment: The information the agent possesses initially.
3. Actions: The possible interventions in the agent's repertoire.
4. Percept Sequence to Date: The complete set of the agent's experiences.

In this framework, a rational agent is one that, for every possible percept sequence, selects
an action that is expected to maximize its performance measure, given the evidence
provided by the percept sequence and whatever built-in knowledge the agent has.4 The
extent to which an agent learns from its own perceptions and compensates for deficiencies
or inaccuracies in its prior knowledge determines its autonomy.3

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PEAS (Performance, Environment, Actuators, Sensors) Framework

Before starting the design of an agent, specifying the task environment is a critical first step.5
For this purpose, the PEAS (Performance, Environment, Actuators, Sensors) framework is
used. This framework systematically defines the agent's purpose, its operational area, and its
capabilities. For example, a PEAS analysis for a robotic agent that places parts on an
assembly line into the correct bins can be done as follows 6:
● Performance: The percentage of parts placed in the correct bins.
● Environment: A conveyor belt with parts and bins on it.
● Actuators: A jointed arm and a gripper hand.
● Sensors: A camera to identify parts and bins, and joint angle sensors to determine the
arm's position.

This structure clarifies the challenges the agent will face and what it needs to succeed,
guiding the design process.

Differentiation from AI Models, Assistants, and Bots

The term "artificial intelligence agent" is often confused with other AI entities like AI models,
assistants, and bots. However, there are fundamental differences between them in terms of
autonomy, complexity, and learning capabilities.
● AI Models: These are static, computational entities trained on large datasets to perform
a specific task (e.g., image classification, text translation).7 They do not have the ability
to act or make decisions on their own; they only provide an output, prediction, or
recommendation when given an input. In modern agent architectures, advanced
models like Large Language Models (LLMs) can serve as the agent's "brain" or reasoning
engine, but they are not agents on their own.8
● Bots: These are reactive systems that follow pre-programmed rules to automate simple,
repetitive tasks or script-based conversations.9 They have the lowest level of autonomy
and very limited or no learning capabilities. Basic spam filters or rule-based customer
service bots fall into this category.10
● AI Assistants: AI assistants like Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant are designed to help users
with their tasks. They understand and respond to natural language inputs, but the
decision-making authority generally lies with the user; assistants can make suggestions,
but the user initiates the final action.9 Their autonomy is higher than bots but lower
than agents.
● AI Agents: These are the entities with the highest level of autonomy, complexity, and
learning ability in this spectrum. AI agents can independently perform complex, multi-
step actions to achieve a specific goal.8 They proactively perceive their environment,
dynamically make plans, make decisions, and improve their performance over time by
learning from their experiences.7 These fundamental differences are summarized in the
table below.

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Table 1.1: Comparative Analysis of AI Models, Bots, Assistants, and Agents

Entity Type Autonomy Task Learning and Primary Interaction

Level Complexity Adaptation Purpose Model

AI Model None Narrow, Static (must Generate Reactive

specific tasks be retrained) prediction/out (Input-Output)
put

Bot Low Simple, Limited or Task Reactive

repetitive none automation (Rule-based)
tasks

AI Assistant Medium Simple-to- Partial Assisting the Reactive

medium learning user (Request-
complexity ability Response)
tasks

AI Agent High Complex, Continuous Autonomous Proactive and

multi-step learning and goal Goal-Oriented
tasks adaptation achievement

Data Sources: 7

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1.2 The Perception-Action Cycle: The Core of Agent Behavior

At the heart of an AI agent's operation lies a cyclical process that enables it to be in
continuous interaction with its environment. This process is generally called the perception-
action cycle and forms the basis of the agent's intelligence and autonomy.2

Stages of the Cycle

This cycle consists of a series of steps that extend from the agent perceiving its environment
to performing an action, and it repeats continuously. Although these steps may vary
depending on the type and complexity of the agent, they can be summarized as follows 12:
1. Perception: The agent collects data from its environment using sensors (cameras,
microphones, LiDAR, etc.) or digital inputs (APIs, text messages, system logs).4 This is
the starting point of the cycle, and the agent's decision-making ability is directly limited
by the quality and scope of the data it perceives.
2. Internal Processing / Reasoning: The raw data perceived is interpreted by algorithms
and models that function as the agent's "brain."14 In this stage, the agent analyzes the
data using an internal model of the world, evaluates the current situation, and
considers what the next step should be according to its goals. In modern agents, this
function is often performed by LLMs.17
3. Decision-Making: The agent selects its next action as a result of the reasoning process.
This decision can be based on predefined deterministic rules (as in simple agents) or
learned probabilistic patterns (as in more complex agents).
4. Action: The agent brings its decision to life in the physical or digital environment
through its actuators (motors, screens, API calls).4 This can range from sending a
notification to moving a robot arm.
5. Feedback: The effect of the performed action on the environment returns to the agent
as a new input in the next perception cycle. This feedback allows the agent to
understand whether its action was successful and, especially for learning agents,
enables them to improve their performance over time.

Embodied Intelligence and the Sensorimotor Loop

The perception-action cycle gains a deeper meaning, especially in the field of Embodied AI.18
Embodied agents are systems that have a physical body, like a robot, and interact directly
with the environment physically.18 This physical interaction transforms the perception-action
cycle into a richer

sensorimotor loop, which also includes the consequences of the agent's own movements.21

This loop allows the agent not only to passively observe the outside world but also to
actively explore and learn through its actions. For example, a robot touching an object
provides information not only about the object's location but also about its texture,
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and helps the agent develop a deeper "understanding" of its relationship with the
environment.20

This context is also important for understanding one of the most famous observations in the
fields of artificial intelligence and robotics: Moravec's Paradox. This paradox states that
sensorimotor skills that are extremely easy for humans (walking, recognizing an object) are
surprisingly difficult for machines, whereas high-level reasoning tasks that are difficult for
humans (playing chess, making mathematical proofs) are relatively easy for machines.23 The
reason for this is that sensorimotor skills are processes that have been optimized over
millions of years of evolution, are largely unconscious, and require enormous computational
resources.23 Modern robotics and embodied AI research focus on developing learning
systems that use the rich data obtained from the sensorimotor loop to overcome this
paradox.25

Case Study: The Perception-Action Cycle in Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles present one of the most complex, high-risk, and concrete examples of
the perception-action cycle. In these systems, the cycle is repeated tens of times per second,
allowing the vehicle to navigate safely in a dynamic environment.
● Perception: The vehicle continuously combines data from multiple sensors such as
cameras, LiDAR, and radar (sensor fusion) to create a 360-degree, three-dimensional
model of its environment.27 In this stage, important elements such as lanes, traffic signs,
other vehicles, and pedestrians are identified using computer vision algorithms (e.g.,
Faster R-CNN, YOLO for object detection) and point cloud processing techniques (e.g.,
RANSAC for ground plane detection).29 The reliability of the perception system is critical
for the safety of the entire system and is therefore strengthened with approaches like
algorithmic redundancy.30
● Planning: Based on the perceived world model and the vehicle's destination, the
software stack executes a multi-layered planning process.29
1. Mission/Route Planning: Determines the most suitable route from the starting
point to the destination. This is usually done using graph search algorithms like
A*.29
2. Behavioral Planning: Makes instantaneous tactical decisions according to traffic
rules and the behavior of other road users (e.g., changing lanes, overtaking, waiting
at an intersection).29
3. Motion Planning: Calculates the precise, smooth, and dynamically feasible
trajectory for the vehicle to follow. This is done using sampling-based algorithms
like RRT*.29
● Action/Control: Commands are sent to the vehicle's steering, throttle, and brake
systems to precisely follow the planned trajectory. This is carried out through control
algorithms such as PID controllers or the more advanced Model Predictive Control
(MPC).29

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● Feedback: The result of the vehicle's actions (new position, speed, and changes in its
surroundings) instantly becomes a new input for the next perception cycle. This
continuous loop makes it possible for the vehicle to dynamically adapt to changing road
conditions, traffic, and unexpected events.

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1.3 Classical Agent Types and Classification

Artificial intelligence agents can be classified in various ways according to their capabilities,
internal complexities, and decision-making mechanisms. This classification, put forward in
the foundational work of Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, shows an evolutionary progression
from the simplest reactive systems to the most complex learning systems.2 This classification
provides a framework for evaluating the autonomy and intelligence level of an AI system.
The simplest agent type only gives instantaneous responses, while more advanced types
integrate memory, goals, utility, and learning capabilities to exhibit increasingly complex and
"intelligent" behaviors.
● Simple Reflex Agents: This is the most basic type of agent. These agents have no
memory and make their decisions based solely on their current perceptions.5 Their
operation is based on predefined
condition-action rules: "If state X is perceived, do action Y."4 Due to their simplicity,
they are fast and have low computational costs, which makes them suitable for
predictable and fully observable environments such as thermostats 10, automatic doors
10, and basic email spam filters.10 However, because they cannot remember the past,

they can easily get into infinite loops or make incorrect decisions in partially observable
environments where perceptual input is insufficient.32
● Model-Based Agents: These agents address the memory deficiency of simple reflex
agents. They maintain an internal state or world model to track aspects of the world
that are not directly observable with the current perception.5 This internal state is
continuously updated based on the past percept sequence and allows the agent to
answer questions like "what is the world like now?" and "how do my actions affect the
world?".5 This capability makes them much more effective at dealing with partially
observable environments. The mapping of autonomous warehouse robots 34, the
prediction of soil moisture levels by modern irrigation systems based on past data 10,
and more advanced robot vacuums remembering the areas they have cleaned 35 are
practical examples of this type.
● Goal-Based Agents: Knowing the current state is not always enough to decide what to
do. Goal-based agents include goal information in their decision-making process.5 Goals
define desirable situations to be achieved. Instead of just reacting to the current state,
these agents evaluate the future consequences of different action sequences and
choose actions that will bring them closer to their goals. This requires more complex
and future-oriented reasoning capabilities such as
search and planning.36 Navigation apps finding the shortest route 35, an AI playing chess
making a plan to checkmate the opponent 37, and complex task automation systems 38
are good examples of goal-based agents.
● Utility-Based Agents: Reaching goals is not always enough; sometimes how "well" the
goal is reached is also important. While goals offer a binary distinction between "happy"
and "unhappy" states, utility provides a more nuanced performance measure.5 Utility-

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based agents use a

utility function that measures how desirable a state is. This allows the agent to strike a
balance between multiple conflicting goals (e.g., speed and safety) or to make rational
decisions in situations where the probabilities of achieving goals are uncertain.5 For
example, an autonomous vehicle uses a utility function when choosing between a faster
but riskier route and a slower but safer route.40 Automatic stock trading bots (balancing
risk and return) 41 and personalized recommendation systems (maximizing user
satisfaction) 39 are other common application areas.
● Learning Agents: These agents have the ability to learn from their experiences to
improve their performance over time. Their architecture consists of four basic
components 5:
1. Performance Element: This is the part responsible for selecting the agent's external
actions; it represents all the previous agent types.
2. Critic: It evaluates how well the agent is performing according to a performance
standard and provides feedback to the learning element.
3. Learning Element: It uses the feedback from the critic to determine how to make
improvements in the performance element.
4. Problem Generator: It suggests exploratory actions for the agent to have new and
informative experiences. This prevents the agent from getting stuck in its current
best strategy.
Reinforcement learning is a technique commonly used in the training of such
agents. Fraud detection systems 10, content recommendation platforms like Netflix
10, and speech recognition software like Siri 10 are practical applications of
learning agents.
● Hybrid Agents: Agents designed to cope with complex real-world problems often have a
hybrid structure that combines the features of the types mentioned above.44 For
example, an autonomous warehouse robot might use fast
model-based reflexes to avoid instant obstacles, goal-based planning to collect a
specific list of products, utility-based decision-making to prioritize urgent orders, and
learning over time to find the most efficient collection routes.35 This hybrid approach
provides a balance between flexibility and robustness, enabling the system to be both
fast and reactive, and to achieve long-term strategic goals.44

This classification provides a basic framework for understanding the capabilities and
autonomy level of an AI system. The category a system falls into indicates how independent,
adaptable, and "intelligent" it is. However, it should not be forgotten that no matter how
advanced an agent's architecture or reasoning ability is, its performance is always limited by
the quality and robustness of its perception module. Perception, the first step of the
perception-action cycle, forms the basis of the agent's decision-making process, and faulty or
incomplete perceptual data can cause even the most sophisticated agent to make wrong
decisions. This situation makes sensor fusion, noise filtering, and mechanisms for dealing

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with perceptual uncertainty one of the most important research areas for practical agent
systems.28

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1.4 Artificial Intelligence Agent Architectures

The architecture of an artificial intelligence agent is the structural design that defines how it
processes information, makes decisions, and interacts with its environment. The choice of
the right architecture is vital for the agent to be able to perform the complex tasks assigned
to it efficiently and reliably. In this section, basic agent architectures ranging from classical
reactive and deliberative architectures to more sophisticated BDI and cognitive architectures
aiming to model human cognition will be examined.

Reactive Architecture
Reactive architectures are the simplest form of agent architectures. Agents with this
architecture do not have memory or complex planning capabilities; instead, they give direct
and instantaneous responses to perceptual inputs.15 Their operation is based on a
predefined set of condition-action rules. This structure offers advantages such as low
computational cost and very fast response times, which makes them suitable for dynamic
environments requiring real-time intervention.47 For example, a robot avoiding an obstacle
that suddenly appears in front of it is a reactive behavior. However, their biggest
disadvantages are their lack of adaptation capabilities and their inability to make strategic
plans for long-term goals. The Subsumption Architecture, pioneered by Rodney Brooks, is a
classic example of reactive architecture. In this model, behaviors are organized in
hierarchical layers from simple and basic tasks (e.g., obstacle avoidance) to more complex
ones (e.g., navigation), and upper layers can "subsume" the behaviors of lower layers when
necessary.12

Deliberative (Cognitive) Architecture

Deliberative architectures, unlike reactive architectures, maintain an explicit and symbolic
internal model of the world and plan their actions by reasoning on this model.15 This
architecture follows the "Sense-Plan-Act" cycle. The agent perceives its environment, uses
this information to update its internal model, creates a step-by-step plan to achieve its goals,
and then implements this plan.47 This approach is extremely powerful for situations
requiring long-term thinking and complex decision-making. For example, a chess program or
a travel planning agent uses a deliberative approach to evaluate the future consequences of
possible moves or routes.15 However, this planning and reasoning process can be
computationally expensive and can slow down the agent's response to rapidly changing
environments.48

Hybrid Architecture
Hybrid architectures aim to combine the best aspects of reactive and deliberative
approaches.15 These architectures usually consist of two (or more) layers: a

reactive layer for quick response to instant and urgent situations, and a deliberative layer
for long-term goals and complex planning.44 For example, an autonomous vehicle uses its
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reactive layer to brake instantly to avoid hitting a pedestrian who suddenly runs onto the
road, while using its deliberative layer to calculate the most suitable route to its
destination.44 The interaction between these two layers allows the agent to be both
tactically agile and strategically intelligent. This structure offers an ideal solution for
complex, dynamic systems that need a balance between speed and adaptability.

BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) Architecture

The BDI architecture is a highly influential type of deliberative architecture inspired by the
philosopher Michael Bratman's theory of human practical reasoning.50 This model explains
the behaviors of agents through three basic mental attitudes, similar to concepts in human
psychology 50:
● Beliefs: Represent the agent's knowledge about the world, i.e., what it believes to be
true. This is the agent's informational state.52
● Desires/Goals: Express the goals the agent wants to achieve or the situations it desires.
This is the agent's motivational state.52
● Intentions: Are the selected desires that the agent is committed to realizing. Intentions
are determined plans that guide the agent's actions and limit future deliberations.53

The BDI architecture enables an agent to exhibit more rational and consistent behavior by
modeling not only what it wants (desires) but also what it has decided to do (intentions).
This structure allows an agent to dynamically adapt to its changing beliefs and goals and is
therefore used especially in applications requiring complex, human-like decision-making
(e.g., air traffic control, supply chain negotiations).12

Layered Architecture
Layered architecture is a modular approach that divides an agent's capabilities into different
levels of abstraction.56 This structure is often seen in hybrid architectures and organizes the
different functions of the system (e.g., perception, planning, action) in separate layers.49 A
typical layered structure can be as follows 13:
1. Perception/Input Layer: Collects raw data from the environment (sensor data, user
inputs, API responses) and converts them into a structured format that higher layers
can understand.
2. Reasoning/Planning Layer: Creates an action plan using the information from the
perception layer and the agent's goals. This layer can be considered the "brain" of the
agent.
3. Action/Execution Layer: Takes the instructions from the planning layer and implements
them in the real world or digital environment through actuators or API calls.

This modular structure makes it easy to develop, test, and maintain each layer
independently, which increases the robustness and scalability of the overall system.49

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Integration of LLMs into Architectures

Modern agent architectures, especially layered and hybrid ones, are increasingly integrating
Large Language Models (LLMs) as a fundamental component.17 Thanks to their advanced
natural language understanding, generation, and reasoning capabilities, LLMs serve as the

reasoning/planning layer or "cognitive core" of the agent architecture.9

In this integration, the perception layer brings the unstructured data it collects from the
environment (e.g., the text of an email or a user query) into a format that the LLM can
process. The LLM evaluates this information in a context (prompt) that includes the agent's
goals and available tools. Then, the LLM decides what the next step should be; this could be
either using a tool (e.g., sending a query to a calendar API) or generating a response to the
user. This decision is brought to life by the action layer. This structure combines the static
information generation capabilities of LLMs with the ability for autonomous action and
interaction with the environment, making them truly "agents."11

The evolution of agent architectures reflects one of the fundamental challenges of artificial
intelligence: on the one hand, the need to build predictable, reliable, and explainable
systems, and on the other hand, the desire to create flexible and autonomous systems that
can adapt to complex, dynamic, and uncertain worlds. Classical deliberative and BDI-like
symbolic architectures answer the first need by being logically verifiable and
understandable, but they remain limited in terms of flexibility.15 On the other hand, modern
layered and hybrid architectures integrated with LLMs offer unprecedented flexibility and
adaptation capability, but this situation creates new challenges in terms of explainability and
reliability due to their "black box" nature. Neuro-symbolic approaches, however, aim to
build a bridge between these two worlds by combining the learning flexibility of neural
networks with the structural and explainable power of symbolic logic, and offer a potential
solution to this dilemma.60 This architectural diversity reinforces the idea that "intelligence"
is not a single design, but a composite of different cognitive strategies shaped according to
the requirements of the task and the environment.

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2.Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)

Advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) have pushed the boundaries of singular,
monolithic systems, enabling the emergence of new paradigms capable of solving
increasingly complex, distributed, and dynamic problems. One of the most significant of
these paradigms is Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), which leverages the collective power of
autonomous, intelligent, and social entities known as agents. This chapter provides an in-
depth analysis of the fundamental concepts, internal dynamics, learning mechanisms, and
problem-solving approaches of MAS, offering a broad perspective that ranges from the
field's foundational theories to its most current research challenges.

2.1: Overview of Multi-Agent Systems

This section will cover the fundamental definition and importance of Multi-Agent Systems
(MAS), the basic types of interactions, and the inherent complexities in their design. In
particular, its conceptual proximity and points of divergence with microservices, one of the
modern software architectures, will be examined in detail.

Definition and Importance: The Cornerstone of Distributed Intelligence

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are defined as systems composed of multiple autonomous
agents interacting in a common environment to solve problems that exceed the capabilities,
knowledge, or resources of a single agent.1 The primary motivation for these systems is the
potential to solve tasks that are too large or complex for a single entity to handle, through
cooperation and coordination. The advantages offered by MAS include the ability to perform
more complex and dangerous tasks, high efficiency, increased fault tolerance and
robustness, low cost, and ease of development.1

The power of MAS comes from the potential for "collective intelligence," which promises
more than the arithmetic sum of the performances of individual agents. These systems are
inspired by biological systems in nature, especially social insect colonies or bird flocks. In
these biological populations, although the capabilities of individuals are limited, it has been
observed that they can exhibit complex global behaviors such as forming formations,
evading predators, or finding food through local or regional communication and
cooperation, without a central control or global information exchange.1 Similarly, agents in a
MAS enable the emergence of intelligent and coherent behavior throughout the system
through local interactions. These systems offer a natural solution architecture for problems
that are inherently distributed (e.g., where data, expertise, or control is geographically
dispersed).5

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Agent Relationship Types: A Typology of Interaction Dynamics

The interactions between agents can be broadly classified into three main categories,
depending on how aligned the agents' goals are with each other. This classification provides
a fundamental framework for understanding the internal dynamics and behavior of a MAS.7
1. Fully Cooperative: In this scenario, all agents have common goals and the same reward
structures. The primary objective of the system is to maximize collective benefit. The
success of one agent directly contributes to the success of other agents, which in turn
leads to the mutual reinforcement of strategies and actions. This type of relationship is
typical in systems where synergy is essential and teamwork is mandatory (e.g., a group
of search-and-rescue robots).7
2. Fully Competitive: This interaction is characterized by a zero-sum game dynamic, where
one agent's gain is directly another's loss. The agents' goals are fundamentally in
conflict with each other and are in direct opposition. This situation is commonly
observed in competitive environments such as robotic competitions or strategic military
simulations, where the success of one side depends on the failure of the other.7
3. Mixed Cooperative and Competitive: Reflecting the vast majority of real-world
scenarios, in this case, agents can be simultaneously in cooperation and competition.10
This type of relationship is prominent in team-based environments. For example, in a
game of robot soccer, agents on the same team cooperate for a common goal like
scoring a goal (cooperative dynamic), while simultaneously competing against the
agents of the opposing team (competitive dynamic).7 The complexity of such systems
arises from the need to balance internal cooperation with external competition and to
require sophisticated strategies to optimize outcomes at both individual and collective
levels.13

The Complexity of Multi-Agent System Design

Despite the advantages they offer in theory, designing and implementing an effective MAS is
quite difficult due to its inherent complexities. These difficulties grow exponentially as the
number of agents and the intensity of their interactions in the system increase.

The complex dependencies between agents are one of the most sensitive points of the
system. A small change in an agent's system prompt or behavior can lead to unpredictable
and difficult-to-control cascading effects, significantly affecting the behavior of other agents
and thus the overall performance of the system.14 Key design challenges include managing
the coordination overhead, preventing bottlenecks in communication channels, ensuring the
system's scalability against an increasing number of agents, adapting to dynamic and
uncertain environmental conditions, and establishing reliable interactions between agents.15

This complexity has gained new dimensions, especially with the rise of Large Language
Model (LLM)-based agents. New and fundamental challenges have emerged, such as how to
optimally distribute tasks among agents, how to foster a robust reasoning process (e.g.,

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through debate or negotiation) among agents with different views, and how to manage the
layered and complex contextual information required for each agent's task.17

Architectural Analysis: The Analogy Between MAS and Microservice

Architecture
To understand the architectural structure of MAS, a comparison with the microservice
architecture in modern software engineering is enlightening. Both paradigms have emerged
as a response to the limitations of monolithic systems and share significant similarities in
their core principles.20
● Parallels: In a monolithic application, all components are tightly interconnected, which
creates serious problems in areas like scalability, sustainability, and fault tolerance.20
Microservice architecture solves these problems by dividing the application into smaller
services, each performing a specific business function, which can be independently
developed, deployed, and scaled.22 Similarly, a MAS, especially when created with
frameworks like AutoGen, has a structure where each agent can be considered an
independent service with a specific capability.23 This modular structure provides the
following benefits in both architectures:
○ Scalability: When the load on only a specific service or agent increases, it is possible
to scale only that component, not the entire application. This ensures efficient use
of resources.21
○ Sustainability and Ease of Maintenance: Changes to one service or agent can be
made without affecting other components. This speeds up development cycles and
reduces risk.20
○ Fault Isolation: A critical failure in one service or agent does not affect the
functionality of the rest of the system and prevents the entire application from
crashing. This increases the overall robustness and reliability of the system.21
● Key Differences: Despite these strong architectural similarities, there are critical
philosophical differences between agents and microservices that reflect their
fundamental nature and purpose. These differences are summarized in the table below.

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Table 1: Comparative Analysis of MAS and Microservice Architectures

Principle Microservice Multi-Agent System Key Differences and

Architecture Description Implications
Description

Autonomy Operates without Operates without The autonomy of agents

human intervention and human intervention, is stronger; they
has control over its own has control over its own proactively control not
internal state. It is actions and internal only their state but also
usually triggered by an state. Makes decisions their actions to achieve
external API call.26 in line with its own their goals.
goals.27

Reactivity Responds to incoming Perceives its While the reactivity of

HTTP requests or events environment and microservices is passive,
in a timely manner. Its responds in a timely that of agents is active
environment is the set manner to changes that and includes situational
of messages it occur within it. The awareness
receives.26 environment can be (situatedness).
software or physical.27

Proactivity Generally not proactive; Not only reacts but also Proactivity is the most
waits for an external takes initiative to fundamental and
trigger to initiate an achieve its goals. It critical feature that
action.26 evaluates opportunities distinguishes agents
and exhibits goal- from microservices. This
oriented behaviors.26 is the main reason why
agents are described as
"intelligent."

Social Ability Inter-service Agents interact using MAS communication

(Communication) communication is Agent Communication has a rich social and
typically provided via Languages (ACL) such as semantic layer beyond
protocols such as FIPA-ACL. raw data exchange. This
RESTful APIs or gRPC, Communication is allows for more
with data-oriented intent-oriented and complex forms of
messages (e.g., JSON).21 includes semantic coordination and
performatives like negotiation.
"request," "inform."21

Bounded Context Each microservice An agent can play one The roles and
represents a single or more roles within the responsibilities of
piece of functionality.26 system and exhibit agents can be more
complex behaviors.26 flexible and dynamic,
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perform more complex

tasks.

State Management Generally stateless, Stateful; has its own The internal states of
with state information internal state (beliefs, agents form the basis of
stored in an external goals), and this state their autonomous and
database.29 affects its decisions. proactive behavior.
This state is hidden
from other agents.26

The problems of scalability and sustainability in monolithic systems in software engineering

have directed the industry towards microservice architecture. This historical evolution finds
its reflection in the field of artificial intelligence. The natural limitations of a single, large,
general-purpose artificial intelligence model, especially LLMs, such as context window
constraints or a single point of failure affecting the entire system, are similarly pushing the AI
field towards MAS consisting of specialized agents.15 This parallel shows a fundamental
architectural trend in both fields towards "separation of concerns" and "decentralization."

However, the deepest distinction between these two paradigms lies in the nature of their
communication. The communication of microservices is primarily data-oriented; one service
requests data from another or sends data to it. In contrast, the communication of agents is
intent-oriented.21 An agent does not just request data from another; it "requests" it to
perform an action, "informs" it of a fact, or "proposes" an offer for an agreement. This
semantic richness reveals that a MAS is not just a distributed set of services, but a "digital
society" composed of autonomous, goal-oriented, and social entities.

This leads to the conclusion that designing a MAS is not only a software architecture
problem but also a social system design problem. Concepts borrowed from social sciences
such as coordination, negotiation, trust, conflict resolution, and the establishment of norms
are elements that have no direct equivalent in the traditional microservice world but are
vital for a successful MAS. Therefore, future MAS development platforms like JADE,
AutoGen, or Semantic Kernel must not only offer technical APIs and communication
protocols but also include mechanisms to implement and manage these social protocols and
norms.5

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2.2.Interaction Dynamics in MAS

The essence of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) lies in the dynamic interactions that agents
establish with each other and with their environment. These interactions can range from
simple information exchange to complex negotiations and determine the overall behavior,
performance, and robustness of the system. This section will examine the complex social
dynamics that emerge when agents come together, from the birth of cooperation and
competition to how the system becomes resilient to errors and how multiple agents come
together to form "collective intelligence."

The Emergence of Cooperation and Competition

In MAS, cooperation and competition are two fundamental forms of interaction that emerge
naturally depending on the design of the system, the individual rational interests of the
agents, and the environmental conditions they are in.30

Cooperation arises when agents have a common goal or when their actions positively affect
each other. This is usually encouraged by mechanisms such as information sharing,
distributed computing, and common reward systems.32 For example, a group of sensor
agents can cooperate by sharing the data they collect to create a more accurate
environmental model. The basis of cooperation is the expectation that collective action will
provide a greater benefit than the sum of individual actions.1

Competition is generally seen when there is a struggle for scarce resources (e.g., bandwidth,
computing power, access to a physical location) or when the goals of the agents conflict with
each other (e.g., zero-sum games).7 Interestingly, competitive dynamics can trigger
cooperation at a higher level. For example, in a scenario where different teams compete
with each other (like robot soccer), this inter-group competition can encourage the agents
within each team to cooperate more tightly.7

Interaction Mechanisms
Various mechanisms have been developed for agents to act effectively within these
cooperative and competitive dynamics. These mechanisms structure and make interactions
predictable.
● Game Theory: It provides a powerful mathematical framework for analyzing strategic
interactions between agents, modeling behaviors, and predicting possible outcomes.
Especially when agents are assumed to be rational beings thinking of their own
interests, game theory is an indispensable tool for understanding when and under what
conditions cooperation or conflict will arise.33 Concepts like the Nash Equilibrium define
stable states where no agent can gain more by unilaterally changing its strategy.
● Negotiation and Argumentation: These are the basic social mechanisms that agents use
to resolve their conflicting interests and reach mutually beneficial agreements.
Negotiation usually involves cycles of offers and counter-offers for the allocation of
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resources or tasks. Argumentation is a more sophisticated form of interaction; agents

try to persuade each other by supporting their claims with justifications and challenging
the claims of others with logical arguments.35 This is particularly effective in resolving
complex and multi-dimensional disputes.
● Communication Protocols: These are a set of standardized rules and formats to ensure
that agents interact with each other in a meaningful, structured, and efficient way.
Languages like FIPA-ACL (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents - Agent
Communication Language) and KQML (Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language)
define the structure (syntax), meaning (semantics), and purpose of use (pragmatics) of
messages. These protocols reduce ambiguity by clarifying what agents "say" and what
that saying means, forming the basis for effective cooperation.28

Conflict/Disagreement: Advantage or Disadvantage?

It may seem ideal at first glance for all agents in a system to always agree. However, conflict
or disagreement, when managed correctly, can become a significant advantage for the
system.
● Disagreement as an Advantage: The fact that agents have different information,
expertise, or special approaches to problems, i.e., cognitive diversity, allows a problem
to be examined much more comprehensively. Different perspectives and criticisms help
in the early detection of potential errors, the illumination of blind spots, and the
prevention of the tendency known as "groupthink," where homogeneous groups move
away from critical thinking.39 Research shows that cognitively diverse human teams
produce more innovative and robust solutions in complex problem-solving tasks.41 This
principle also applies to artificial agent teams. When a solution proposed by one agent
is criticized by another, the result is better examined and more reliable.
● Disagreement as a Disadvantage: On the other hand, this diversity can turn into a
disadvantage. If the goal incompatibilities between agents are fundamentally
unsolvable or if communication channels are broken, a state of constant conflict can
lead to the system locking up, slowing down decision-making processes, and general
inefficiency.16 It is also stated that excessive cognitive diversity can increase
coordination costs and decrease performance by making it difficult for agents to
understand each other's mental models or representation forms ("representational
gaps").43 This relationship is often described as
inverted-U shaped: low and very high levels of diversity lead to suboptimal
performance, while a moderate level of diversity yields optimal results.42

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Fault Tolerance: Redundancy and Decentralized Control

One of the most important advantages of MAS is its potential to create inherently fault-
tolerant systems. This is vital, especially in applications where critical tasks are performed or
where the probability of system components failing is high.
● Decentralized Control: The basic architectural principle of MAS is the absence of a
central control unit. Each agent makes its own decisions autonomously. This structure
eliminates the risk of a single point of failure crashing the entire system. While in a
centralized system the crash of the main server stops the entire operation, in a MAS,
the failure of one agent generally does not prevent the rest of the system from
continuing to work.1 This significantly increases the overall robustness of the system.
● Redundancy: Another way to ensure fault tolerance is through redundancy. This means
that multiple agents have the capacity to perform the same task. When one agent fails,
another agent with the same capability can take over its task, so the task does not
remain incomplete.46 For example, if there are multiple sensor agents monitoring an
industrial facility, if one fails, the others continue to monitor, preventing data loss.
● Error Detection and Recovery: Agents can detect anomalies by actively monitoring each
other's status (e.g., by sending periodic "heartbeat" signals). Other agents that notice an
agent has become unexpectedly silent or is behaving incorrectly can trigger predefined
recovery mechanisms. This may include restarting the faulty agent, redistributing its
tasks to other agents, or returning the system to the last stable state.47

Collective Intelligence and Error Correction

The coming together of multiple agents reveals the potential for collective intelligence,
which promises more than a simple sum of individual abilities. This is one of the most
fascinating and powerful aspects of MAS.
● Collective Intelligence: It is the problem-solving capacity at a level that a single agent
cannot achieve alone, which emerges as a result of the interactions of a group of agents
involving cooperation, competition, and coordination.4 This intelligence is an
emergent property that arises from the agents' behaviors based on local rules and
interactions, rather than from central planning.1 For example, while each vehicle agent
in a traffic management system tries to optimize only its own route, the sum of these
local decisions can lead to the improvement of traffic flow globally.
● Error Correction Mechanism: The collective structure also functions as a powerful error
correction mechanism. When an agent makes a faulty reasoning, relies on incorrect
information, or an LLM-based agent "hallucinates," other agents can detect this error.
Another agent with a different perspective or correct information can refute the faulty
proposal with a counter-argument or offer an alternative solution, ensuring the system
stays on the right track.50 This provides an assurance against the potential biases or
errors of a single agent, especially in systems where critical decisions are made.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis
Although MAS offers many powerful advantages, these advantages come with certain costs
and complexities. The decision to use MAS in a system design requires a careful cost-benefit
analysis.
● Benefits: Flexibility (the ability to easily add and remove new agents), efficiency (the
parallel execution of tasks), scalability (the ability to adapt to increasing load), and
robust decision-making (benefiting from multiple perspectives) are the main benefits of
MAS.1
● Costs: In return for these benefits, costs such as increased coordination complexity,
communication overhead between agents, and difficulties in testing and debugging the
system's behavior arise.2 The continuous communication of agents can consume
significant bandwidth and computational resources, especially as the number of agents
increases.

In conclusion, if the nature of a task is simple and can be efficiently solved by a single agent,
using a multi-agent architecture creates unnecessary complexity and cost. The true value of
MAS emerges only when the complexity of the problem, its distributed nature, or the
diversity of expertise it requires exceeds the capacity of a single agent.2

At this point, it is important to see how the fundamental features of MAS are in tension with
each other. The system's greatest strength, its decentralized structure, is also the source of
its most fundamental challenges. Decentralized control increases the system's robustness by
eliminating a single point of failure.44 However, this decentralization leads to each agent
being able to see only a part of the environment, i.e.,

partial observability.44 Under partial observability, it is extremely difficult for an agent to

accurately predict the global consequences of its own action. This situation leads to a
fundamental challenge known as the "credit assignment problem," especially in cooperative
scenarios: when a task is accomplished by a collective effort, how is it determined which
agent is responsible for how much of this success?.52 This uncertainty can lead to agents
learning incorrectly or getting stuck in suboptimal equilibria.

This internal tension explains why MAS research is turning towards hybrid paradigms such as
"Centralized Training, Decentralized Execution" (CTDE). The CTDE approach is a pragmatic
attempt to resolve this tension. In the training phase, a central "critic" is used that has access
to the observations, actions, and rewards of all agents. This global perspective alleviates
problems like credit assignment and non-stationarity, enabling a more effective learning
process. However, after the training is complete, in the execution phase, the agents act
autonomously based only on their own local observations. This preserves the advantages of
the decentralized structure such as scalability, robustness, and privacy.53 This hybrid model
bridges the gap between the theoretical challenges of MAS and practical application
requirements by combining the best aspects of centralized and decentralized approaches.
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2.3. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)

For agents in Multi-Agent Systems to exhibit intelligent and adaptive behaviors, it is critical
that they possess the ability to learn. In this context, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
(MARL) stands out as a field where agents learn the most appropriate action strategies
(policies) through trial and error and based on feedback (rewards or penalties) they receive
from their environment. This section will provide an in-depth examination of the definition,
historical development of MARL, and the fundamental challenges that distinguish it from
single-agent reinforcement learning (RL).

Definition and Development

MARL is a dynamic research area at the intersection of multiple disciplines, including single-
agent reinforcement learning (RL), multi-agent systems, game theory, evolutionary
computation, and optimization theory.34 Essentially, it studies how multiple agents,
interacting in a shared environment, adjust their behaviors to maximize their individual or
collective goals.57 Agents receive a numerical reward signal based on the outcomes of their
actions and use this signal to learn to make better decisions over time.

While the roots of the MARL field are based on the principles of single-agent RL, the
presence of multiple agents makes the problem fundamentally different and more complex.
In the last decade, the "Deep Reinforcement Learning" (DRL) revolution, which emerged
from the combination of deep neural networks with reinforcement learning, has also
profoundly impacted the MARL field. This merger has led to the birth of a new subfield
known as "Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" (Deep MARL).58 Deep MARL has made
it possible to address complex problems (e.g., strategy games or robotic manipulation) that
were previously considered unsolvable, by enabling agents to learn directly from high-
dimensional state and observation spaces (e.g., raw pixel data).57

Challenges: The "Curses" of MARL

There are three fundamental and interrelated challenges that distinguish MARL from single-
agent RL and make it a particularly challenging field. These challenges are often referred to
as the "curses" of the field and form the basic considerations in the design of MARL
algorithms.
● Curse of Dimensionality: Each new agent added to a MARL system exponentially grows
the joint state-action space.59 For example, in a system with 5 agents, each having 10
actions, the total number of joint actions is
105=100,000. This massive state-action space makes the learning process both
computationally extremely costly and inefficient in terms of the required amount of
data (experience). This problem is one of the biggest obstacles to scaling MARL
algorithms to large agent populations.61 To overcome this challenge, network
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of agent symmetry, or permutation invariance and permutation equivariance, which are

based on the assumption that the order of agents is not important, have been
proposed.62
● Non-stationarity: In a single-agent RL problem, the environment dynamics are generally
stationary; that is, the responses it gives to the agent's actions do not change over time.
However, in a MARL system, each agent updates its own policy while other agents are
also constantly updating their own policies. This situation causes the environment to
constantly change for any given agent, i.e., it becomes non-stationary.52 The best action
an agent learns in a particular situation may no longer be the best action when the
behaviors of other agents change. This "moving target" problem violates the Markov
property, which is the basis of single-agent RL algorithms, and eliminates the
convergence guarantees of these algorithms.61 To alleviate this problem, techniques
such as multi-timescale learning, where agents learn at different learning rates 66, or
trust-region methods that limit the deviation between consecutive policies have been
developed.67
● Partial Observability: In most real-world applications, it is not practical for agents to
have information about the full and global state of the environment. Instead, each
agent generally has access only to noisy and incomplete observations about its own
local environment.68 This incomplete information makes it difficult for agents to
accurately predict both the true state of the environment and the intentions of other
agents, and prevents effective coordination. This situation requires modeling the
problem as a
Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (Dec-POMDP), the
solution of which is known to be NEXP-hard (i.e., harder than problems solvable in non-
deterministic exponential time).70 To deal with this challenge, approaches such as
masked auto-encoders, which help agents infer information about other agents or the
global state from their own local observations, have been proposed.54

These three fundamental challenges are deeply interconnected, and an attempt to solve one
can often worsen the others. This situation can be conceptualized as a "MARL Trilemma."
For example, an agent may decide to model the policies or intentions of other agents to
solve the non-stationarity problem.52 However, including these complex models of other
agents in its own state space further exacerbates the

curse of dimensionality, as the number of parameters to be learned increases.61

Alternatively, agents can communicate with each other to reduce stationarity. However, if
this communication is limited to only local neighbors, the information each agent has about
the global state decreases further, which deepens the

partial observability problem.68 If all agents communicate with each other continuously
(broadcast), this time the communication load and again the dimensionality problem (the
amount of information each agent has to process increases) arise.

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This trilemma explains why MARL research focuses on architectures and approaches that
offer pragmatic trade-offs between these three challenges for specific problem types, rather
than searching for a single "one-size-fits-all" algorithm. The Centralized Training,
Decentralized Execution (CTDE) paradigm is one of the most popular approaches to
managing this trade-off. CTDE tries to balance these challenges by accessing the information
of all agents from a central location during the training phase (thus alleviating stationarity
and observability problems), but allowing agents to act independently and decentrally during
the execution phase (thus reducing dimensionality and communication load). This shows
that MARL is evolving from a "pure" theoretical problem to an engineering and architectural
optimization problem.

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Table 2: Key Challenges in MARL and Main Solution Approaches

Challenge Description of the Example Solution Related Sources

Challenge Approaches

Curse of Dimensionality As the number of Permutation 62

agents increases, the Equivariant Networks

exponential growth of (PEN), Mean-Field
the joint state-action Approaches, Value
space makes learning Decomposition
computationally and Networks (VDN).
data-inefficient.

Non-stationarity As one agent learns, Multi-Timescale 52

other agents also Learning, Trust-Region

change their policies, Optimization, Opponent
causing the Modeling.
environment dynamics
to constantly change
from the agent's
perspective. This
violates the Markov
assumption of RL.

Partial Observability Agents having access Recurrent Neural 54

only to local and noisy Networks (RNNs),

observations instead of Masked Auto-Encoders
full information about (MAE), Communication
the global state makes Protocols.
decision-making and
coordination difficult.

Credit Assignment The difficulty of Counterfactual 52

Problem determining how much Baselines (e.g., COMA),
each agent's action Centralized Critic,
contributed to the Difference Rewards.
reward when a
collective reward signal
is received.

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2.4: Multi-Agent Coordination

The fundamental promise of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is that multiple autonomous agents
work together to solve complex tasks more effectively than a single agent could. The
realization of this promise depends on coordination, the fundamental mechanism that
allows agents to harmonize their actions. This section will examine the definition, purpose,
basic mechanisms, application areas of coordination, and the current challenges and future
research directions in this field.

Definition and Purpose

Multi-agent coordination is defined as the process of a group of agents managing their
interactions and decisions to increase system-level performance, achieve common goals in a
compatible manner, and resolve conflicts that may arise on issues such as resource use or
action selection.72 Coordination is one of the most fundamental and widespread research
areas of MAS because it acts as the "glue" that allows a group of independent agents to
work as an efficient team rather than a chaotic community.74

The main purpose of coordination is to ensure that a globally consistent, efficient, and
desired behavior emerges from the decisions made by individual agents based only on local
information and goals.1 This means preventing agents from obstructing each other's actions,
sharing resources efficiently, and maximizing collective ability by creating synergy.

Mechanisms and Applications

Various mechanisms, both inspired by nature and formally designed, exist to ensure
coordination among agents.
● Flocking Behavior: Inspired by the fascinating collective movements of bird flocks or
fish schools, this mechanism is a classic example of how collective movement can be
achieved without a central leader or controller. Flocking is generally based on three
simple local rules 75:
1. Separation: Move away from nearby neighbors to avoid collision.
2. Alignment: Steer towards the average heading of nearby neighbors.
3. Cohesion: Move toward the perceived center of nearby neighbors.
The simultaneous application of these simple rules by each agent ensures that the
flock moves as a whole in a fluid and coherent manner.
● Application Areas: Coordination mechanisms play a critical role in a wide variety of
practical areas beyond being theoretical concepts:
○ Robotics and Automation: Tasks such as thousands of robots working in a
coordinated manner to transport packages in Amazon's warehouses, a drone
swarm systematically scanning a debris field in search-and-rescue operations, or a
group of robots planting a field in precision agriculture applications are impossible
without effective coordination.76

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○ Transportation Systems: The optimization of traffic flow by autonomous vehicle

fleets communicating with each other, agreeing on right-of-way at intersections,
and the dynamic coordination of traffic lights according to the city's overall traffic
situation form the basis of future smart cities.7
○ Satellite Systems and Telecommunications: The maintenance of specific
formations in orbit by constellations of hundreds or thousands of satellites (e.g.,
Starlink) and providing uninterrupted coverage on Earth requires precise
coordination.74
○ Disaster Recovery and Military Applications: The cooperation of heterogeneous
agents with different capabilities (e.g., drones conducting aerial observation and
robots clearing debris from the ground) to save lives in a disaster area is one of the
most challenging and critical applications of coordination.7

Challenges and Future Directions

Ensuring effective coordination comes with a series of fundamental challenges, especially in
large-scale and dynamic systems.
● Key Challenges:
○ Scalability: As the number of agents increases, the number of potential interactions
and communication messages increases exponentially. This situation can cause
bottlenecks in communication channels and an increase in computational load,
thereby reducing the system's performance.76
○ Heterogeneity: The coordination of agents with different capabilities, sensors,
mobility, or goals (heterogeneous agents) is much more complex than in
homogeneous systems where all agents are the same. Differences need to be
managed and the capability of each agent must be utilized in the best way.81
○ Learning Mechanisms: How agents will learn effective coordination strategies
through trial and error in dynamic and uncertain environments, instead of adhering
to pre-programmed rules, is an ongoing research problem, especially in the context
of MARL.74
● Future Directions: To overcome these challenges, the research community has focused
on several promising directions:
1. Hybrid Architectures: Hybrid coordination strategies that combine the efficiency of
rigid hierarchical control with the flexibility and robustness of fully decentralized
systems are being developed. These could be structures where some agents take
on leader or coordinator roles, while other agents remain locally autonomous.72
2. Human-MAS Coordination (Human-in-the-Loop): The inclusion of humans in the
decision-making loop is becoming increasingly important, especially in situations
where critical or ethically sensitive decisions need to be made. Humans can set the
overall goals of the system, provide supervision in unexpected situations, or act as
arbitrators in complex conflicts that agents cannot resolve. The natural language
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the potential to revolutionize this field by offering a more intuitive and effective
communication channel between humans and agents.84
3. LLM-Based MAS: The advanced planning, reasoning, and communication
capabilities of LLMs have the potential to fundamentally transform the
coordination and decision-making processes of agents. Agents can use LLMs as a
"brain" to better understand complex tasks, break them down into sub-tasks, and
conduct more sophisticated negotiations with other agents.74

There is a direct and deep relationship between coordination mechanisms and the concept
of collective intelligence. Simple, local, and decentralized rules like flocking enable the
emergence of global behaviors that appear complex, intelligent, and purposeful when
viewed as a whole (emergent behavior). This shows that "intelligence" is not found in a
single central processor or agent, but is a product of the interactions between the
components of the system and the rules that govern these interactions.

In this context, the evolution of coordination strategies reflects a broader trend in the
development of artificial intelligence systems. Traditional coordination algorithms are often
based on pre-programmed, fixed rules (e.g., the three rules of flocking).75 While these rules
are efficient and reliable for defined and static environments, they can be fragile in
unpredictable or dynamic environments. For example, these simple rules may be insufficient
when a drone swarm encounters a type of obstacle it has never seen before or unexpected
weather conditions. In response to this limitation, MARL offers adaptability by enabling
agents to learn new and more complex coordination strategies through trial and error.76
However, MARL also has its own internal challenges, such as a slow learning process and
"credit assignment."52

Therefore, the most robust and effective coordination systems of the future will likely have a
hybrid structure that combines different types of intelligence, rather than relying on a single
approach. Such a system can be thought of as a three-layered architecture:
1. Rule-Based Layer: Contains pre-programmed rules for fast, efficient, and reliable basic
behaviors (e.g., collision avoidance).
2. Learning-Based Layer (MARL): Uses learning algorithms to deal with new and
unpredictable situations, develop new strategies, and optimize performance over time.
3. Human-in-the-Loop Layer: Allows for human intervention in critical moments that
require human common sense, ethical judgment, or strategic supervision.84

In this hybrid architecture, LLMs can play a vital role as a "translator," "interface," or
"orchestrator" between these three layers. LLMs can translate high-level human commands
(e.g., "Explore this area safely") into executable plans and rules for agents. At the same time,
they can translate complex status reports or learning processes from MARL agents into
understandable, natural language summaries for humans. This is not just an integration of
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paradigm where different forms of intelligence (rule-based, learning-based, and human

intelligence) work in harmony.

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2.5: Multi-Agent Negotiation

In Multi-Agent Systems, where agents are autonomous and often self-interested entities, a
mechanism is needed to reconcile conflicting goals and agree on a common plan of action.
This mechanism is negotiation. Negotiation is a fundamental form of social interaction that
allows agents to allocate resources fairly, distribute tasks efficiently, and cooperate by
striking a balance between their interests. This section will detail the definition, importance,
basic mechanisms of negotiation, and the challenges in this field.

Definition and Importance

Negotiation is an iterative communication process in which multiple autonomous agents
present offers and counter-offers to reach a mutually acceptable agreement on a task or
resource.35 This process enables agents to function as a team, allowing them to overcome
complex challenges that would be too difficult or impossible for a single agent.90

The importance of negotiation becomes particularly evident in mixed-motive scenarios,

where agents are self-interested but still need to cooperate to achieve a goal.36 For example,
a group of delivery drones must both minimize their own delivery times (individual interest)
and avoid collisions by sharing airspace (collective need). Negotiation provides the necessary
mechanism for establishing such balances.91

Negotiation Mechanisms
Various mechanisms have been developed to enable negotiation in MAS, suitable for
different scenarios and levels of complexity.
● Auctions: A market-based mechanism commonly used, especially for resource or task
allocation. An agent (or a central "auctioneer") announces a task or resource, and other
agents submit bids to undertake it. The task or resource is awarded to the agent with
the most suitable bid according to a specific rule (e.g., the highest bidder, the one
offering the lowest cost).89 This method is highly effective in situations where resources
need to be distributed efficiently, and different types of auctions (e.g., English, Dutch,
Vickrey) offer different strategic properties.
● Contract Net Protocol (CNP): A classic and decentralized protocol for task distribution.
The process follows these steps: A "manager" agent publishes a "task announcement"
for a task that needs to be performed. Potential "contractor" agents evaluate this
announcement and submit bids based on their ability and cost to perform the task. The
manager evaluates the incoming bids and selects the most suitable one, awarding a
"contract" to that contractor.95 This protocol allows for the dynamic and load-balanced
distribution of tasks within the system.
● Argumentation-Based Negotiation (ABN): This is a richer and more sophisticated form
of negotiation that goes beyond simple offer exchange. In ABN, agents not only submit
offers but also present logical arguments (justifications, evidence, explanations) that

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support these offers or challenge the offers of the other party.36 For example, an agent
might support the offer "I need this resource now" with the argument "because without
this resource, I cannot complete the highest priority task." This exchange of arguments
allows agents to influence each other's beliefs, preferences, and constraints. This can
produce more flexible and rational outcomes that cannot be achieved with simple offer
exchange.
● Fuzzy Constraint-Based Models: Designed for situations where preferences and
constraints are "fuzzy" rather than "crisp" in many real-world negotiations. These
models allow agents to represent flexible preferences such as "I prefer the price to be
approximately 100" or "I want the delivery to be quite fast." This enables agents to
model and negotiate on the basis of trade-offs, such as accepting a "slightly later
delivery" in exchange for a "slightly lower price."

Challenges
Automated negotiation, although a powerful tool, also brings with it significant challenges
that need to be solved.
● Fairness and Strategic Behavior: Achieving fair outcomes in negotiation processes is a
fundamental goal. However, agents trying to maximize their own interests may lie,
bluff, or strategically withhold important information to achieve their goals. This
requires protocols to be strategy-proof against such manipulations, which makes the
design difficult.89
● Incomplete Information: Agents often do not have full information about the
preferences, constraints, or "Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement" (BATNA) of
other agents. Making rational decisions under this incomplete information and
uncertainty is one of the fundamental challenges of negotiation.89
● Computational Complexity: Especially when there are many agents or many
negotiation issues, evaluating all possible agreements and strategic moves can quickly
become computationally intractable (combinatorial explosion). This can make finding
optimal strategies NP-hard.33
● Human-Agent Negotiation: The inclusion of humans in the negotiation loop adds a new
layer of complexity to the process. Human decision-making processes are not always
fully rational, can be influenced by emotions, and can rely on implicit social cues. For an
agent to negotiate effectively with a human, it needs to have not only logical but also
social intelligence, build trust, and adapt to the subtleties of human behavior.90

The choice of negotiation mechanisms offers a trade-off between the efficiency and
flexibility of the system. Simple, structured mechanisms like auctions are generally efficient,
fast, and less costly in terms of computation, but their flexibility is limited. On the other
hand, more complex mechanisms like argumentation-based negotiation can produce much
more flexible and rational outcomes, but their communication and computational loads are
significantly higher.

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The fundamental distinction between these different approaches stems from the nature of
the problem they address. For simple task allocation, mechanisms like the Contract Net or
Auction are often sufficient.89 These mechanisms focus on

"what" agents want and try to match these requests efficiently. However, when agents'
preferences are deeply in conflict and more than a simple resource allocation is needed,
these mechanisms may be inadequate and lead to deadlocks.

This is where argumentation-based negotiation comes into play. ABN allows agents to
explain not only "what" they want but also "why" they want it.98 An agent, when requesting
a resource, can present the rationale behind its request (e.g., "I need this resource because I
need to complete a higher priority task") as an argument. This "why" information provides
critical context for other agents. In light of this new information, other agents can re-
evaluate their own preferences and world models and potentially change their positions.
This process creates new agreement possibilities that were not initially apparent, thus
expanding the potential agreement space.

Therefore, argumentation transforms negotiation from a simple optimization problem

(finding the best agreement with existing preferences) into a much richer learning and
persuasion problem. Agents not only seek the best outcome according to the current
situation but also actively try to change each other's beliefs and goals about the world. This
allows MAS to evolve from a system that merely performs predefined tasks to a system that
can resolve its internal disputes through rational dialogue and reach a common
understanding and consensus. Given the sophisticated argument generation and
understanding capabilities of LLMs, this approach offers extremely powerful potential for
future autonomous systems.

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Table 3: Comparison of Negotiation Mechanisms

Mechanism Core Communica Flexibility Typical Use Advantages Disadvanta

Principle tion Case ges
Complexity

Auctions Resource/t Low. Low. Rules Distribution Efficient, Inflexible

ask Usually are of a single fast, agreements
allocation involves generally resource or scalable, , strategic
through announcing fixed and well- can be bidding
market- bids and do not defined centralized (e.g.,
based the winner. allow for tasks to or collusion).
competitio trade-offs. multiple decentraliz
n. Agents agents. ed.
bid, the
best bid
wins.92

Contract A Medium. Medium. Dynamic Decentraliz Communica

Net (CNP) "manager" Includes Bids can be task ed tion
announces task dynamic allocation structure, overhead
a task, announcem based on and load dynamic (broadcast)
"contractor ent, bids, the agent's balancing in adaptation, , no
s" bid, the and award capability decentraliz natural guarantee
best bid is messages. and current ed load of finding
selected, load. environme balancing. the most
and a nts. suitable
"contract" contractor.
is made.95

Argumenta Agents High. High. Complex, More High

tion (ABN) present Requires Agents can multi- rational computatio
logical the persuade dimensiona and high- nal and
arguments exchange each other, l problems, quality communica
and of complex change situations agreements tion costs,
justification arguments their where , potential complex
s to support in addition preferences agents' to expand protocol
or refute to offers. , and create beliefs or the design.
their new goals agreement
offers.98 solutions. conflict. space.

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2.6: Distributed Problem Solving (DPS)

At the core of the Multi-Agent Systems paradigm lies the goal of solving problems that are
too large or complex for a single entity to solve. Distributed Problem Solving (DPS) is a
special research area within MAS that focuses precisely on this goal. DPS examines the
models and algorithms that allow a problem to be broken down into parts and solved
collaboratively by multiple agents. This section will address the definition of DPS, its basic
models, application areas, and the risk of "complete accuracy collapse," one of today's
newest challenges.

Definition and Motivation

Distributed Problem Solving (DPS) is considered one of the two main sub-disciplines of the
field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI); the other being Multi-Agent Systems (MAS),
which focuses on behavior management.2 DPS focuses more on the

information management aspects of systems with multiple components working towards a

common goal. Its main topics include how to decompose a large problem into smaller,
manageable sub-problems (task decomposition) and how to then combine the solutions of
these sub-problems to form an overall solution (solution synthesis).2

The main motivation of DPS is the ability to address problems that exceed the capacity,
knowledge, or resources of individual agents by distributing the problem and solving it in
parallel.2 This can both speed up the solution process and offer a natural modeling
framework for problems that are inherently distributed (e.g., data from sensors in different
locations).

Models and Algorithms: Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR)

A significant part of DPS research has focused on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR)
models, which are a powerful formalism for mathematically expressing problems. In this
approach, a problem is formulated as a set of variables, a domain containing possible values
for each variable, and a set of constraints that define the relationships or preferences
between these variables. Each agent is responsible for determining the value of one or more
variables and tries to find a globally consistent or optimal solution by communicating with
neighboring agents.

The two main models of DCR are:

1. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs): In this model, the goal is to find
a value assignment that satisfies all constraints (hard constraints) simultaneously. For
example, a meeting scheduling problem can be modeled as a DCSP to find a time slot
where all participants are available.
2. Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs): This model is a generalization
of DCSP and is more widely used. In DCOPs, the constraints are "soft," and each is
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associated with a cost (or benefit). The goal is to find a value assignment that minimizes
the sum of the costs of all constraints (or maximizes the sum of their benefits).100 DCOP
offers an extremely powerful and flexible framework for modeling a large number of
coordination and resource allocation problems. In this area, numerous algorithms have
been developed that produce both optimal (complete) and approximate (incomplete)
solutions, such as ADOPT, DPOP, DSA, and Max-sum.101

Applications
DPS and especially DCOP techniques have found a wide range of applications in various real-
world scenarios that require inherently distributed decision-making:
● Sensor Networks and Mobile Robot Teams: Tasks such as placing sensors to best cover
targets in an area or coordinating mobile robots to search or monitor a specific region
can be modeled as DCOP.103
● Autonomous Driving and Drone Navigation: Problems such as determining the crossing
order of autonomous vehicles at an intersection to avoid collisions and optimize traffic
flow, or a drone swarm tracking a target together, can be solved with DPS approaches.7
● Disaster Recovery: The most efficient distribution of search-and-rescue teams or robots
to different areas under debris and the sharing of tasks.7
● Resource Allocation: Resource allocation problems such as assigning frequency
channels to different access points in wireless local area networks (WLANs) to minimize
interference, or optimizing production and distribution to meet energy demand in
smart grids, are classic application areas of DCOP.5

Challenges and Future Directions

The DPS field, despite its powerful modeling capabilities, faces significant challenges that
need to be solved.
● Privacy: DCOP algorithms often require agents to share their own constraints or cost
functions with neighboring agents to find an optimal solution. This situation leads to
serious privacy concerns, especially in scenarios where agents belong to different
organizations or contain sensitive information. Privacy-preserving DCOP (Privacy-
Preserving DCOP) algorithms that minimize information sharing or use encryption
techniques are an active research area to solve this problem.100
● Dynamic Environments: Real-world problems are rarely static. Tasks can emerge or
change dynamically, agents can fail, or environmental conditions can change
unexpectedly. Traditional DCOP models are not designed to cope with such dynamics. In
response to this need, Dynamic DCOP models and algorithms, where the problem
changes over time, are being developed.104
● Complete Accuracy Collapse: A worrying finding that has recently emerged in the field
of artificial intelligence is that the performance of even the most advanced large
reasoning models (LRMs) does not gradually decrease when the problem complexity
exceeds a certain threshold, but suddenly and completely collapses. Research has

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shown that these models exhibit "zero accuracy" after a certain level of complexity and
even reduce their "thinking" effort even when given a sufficient computational budget
(token budget) to solve the problem.106 This "complete accuracy collapse" raises serious
questions about the reliability of LLMs in tasks that require structural and complex
reasoning. Models can even fail when the basic algorithm required to solve the problem
is explicitly given to them.108

There is a fundamental tension between formal, structural problem-solving approaches like

DPS and DCOP, and more intuitive and flexible problem-solving approaches based on LLMs.
While DCOP offers mathematical precision, structure, and optimizability, LLMs offer
flexibility, adaptation, and the potential for human-like reasoning. Combining these two
approaches could be a promising path for future DPS systems.

In this context, the following logical progression can be observed:

1. DPS and DCOP aim to solve complex problems by dividing them into mathematically
definable, decomposable, and optimizable units.100 This approach is inherently
structural and algorithmic.
2. New generation LLM-based agents offer the potential to solve such problems without
an explicit algorithm, with a more human-like reasoning process, through mechanisms
like "chain-of-thought."107 This approach is
intuitive and emergent.
3. However, the "complete accuracy collapse" finding shows that the intuitive reasoning
ability of LLMs is unreliable when structural complexity increases and can fail
suddenly.106 This strongly implies that LLMs, in their current state, cannot reliably solve
complex optimization problems like DCOP that require optimality guarantees on their
own.
4. These observations lead to the conclusion that the most robust and effective DPS
systems of the future will likely be hybrid systems that combine these two approaches.

In this hybrid architecture, LLM-based agents can undertake high-level planning and
interface tasks such as high-level understanding of the problem, interacting with humans in
natural language, transforming the problem into a formal model like DCOP, and proposing
intuitive solution strategies. However, the solution and optimization of these formulated
sub-problems can be delegated to formal methods like traditional DCOP algorithms that
provide reliability, robustness, and optimality guarantees. In this model, the LLM will play
the role of an "orchestrator" that understands "what to do" and "why," while DCOP solvers
will be reliable "engines" that calculate "how to do it" in the best way. This collaboration
offers a powerful architecture that combines the flexibility of LLMs and the robustness of
DCOP, mitigating the weaknesses of both approaches and reducing risks such as "complete
accuracy collapse."

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Conclusion
Multi-Agent Systems represent a new paradigm in which artificial intelligence is evolving
from a field of singular, isolated entities to the modeling and management of complex social
and distributed systems. The analyses conducted throughout this chapter have revealed the
multi-layered and interdisciplinary nature of the concepts, dynamics, and challenges
underlying MAS.

Key Takeaways:
1. Architectural and Social Design Dilemma: While the similarity of MAS to microservice
architecture emphasizes the importance of software engineering principles like
modularity and scalability, fundamental agent characteristics such as proactivity and
intent-oriented communication carry this paradigm beyond a simple architectural
pattern. Designing a MAS is not just a technical task, but also a social system design
problem that includes elements like coordination, negotiation, and trust.
2. Balance of Dynamics: Inter-agent interactions are built on a delicate balance between
cooperation and competition. Cognitive diversity and disagreement, when managed
correctly, serve as a motor for innovation and robustness, while, when unmanaged, can
lead to system deadlock. This creates an optimization challenge in system design where
"inverted-U" relationships must be carefully managed.
3. The Cost of Decentralization and Hybrid Solutions: The greatest strength of MAS, its
decentralized structure, is also the source of its most fundamental learning challenges,
such as non-stationarity, partial observability, and credit assignment. This internal
tension has made it inevitable for the field to turn to pragmatic and hybrid solutions like
"Centralized Training, Decentralized Execution" (CTDE), which combine the best aspects
of centralized and decentralized approaches.
4. Synthesis of Formal and Intuitive Approaches in Problem Solving: Formal, algorithmic
approaches like DCOP in the Distributed Problem Solving (DPS) field offer reliability and
optimality guarantees, while the intuitive reasoning abilities of LLM-based agents
promise flexibility and human-like problem understanding capacity. However, the
"complete accuracy collapse" phenomenon exhibited by LLMs under high complexity
reveals the necessity of combining these two worlds. The most robust systems of the
future will be hybrid structures that combine the high-level planning and orchestration
capabilities of LLMs with the computational power and reliability of formal methods like
DCOP.

Future Outlook:
The field of Multi-Agent Systems is entering a new era with the integration of LLMs and the
increasing importance of human-in-the-loop approaches. Future research and applications
will likely concentrate on the following areas:
● LLM-Orchestrated Hybrid Systems: Architectures where LLMs are used as
"orchestrators" that manage heterogeneous teams of agents with different capabilities
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(rule-based, learning-based, formal), formulate tasks, and synthesize results.

● Advanced Social Protocols: The development of protocols that manage not only
communication but also complex social dynamics such as trust-building, the emergence
of norms, and the resolution of ethical conflicts.
● Human-Agent Teaming: The design of symbiotic systems where humans and artificial
agents cooperate in a seamless and intuitive way, complementing each other's
strengths.

In conclusion, Multi-Agent Systems is a challenging but equally rewarding field with the
potential to shape the future of artificial intelligence. Success will come not only from
developing better algorithms but also from a deep understanding of the architectural, social,
and cognitive contexts in which these algorithms interact.

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3: Advanced Topics and Applications of AI Agents

This unit moves beyond the foundational concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents to
address the complex philosophical, ethical, and architectural challenges that define the
current state of the field. First, it will examine the profound questions of intelligence,
responsibility, and control arising from autonomous systems. Subsequently, it will analyze
the emerging field of Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS),
exploring the transition from singular agents to collective intelligence and the new
paradigms of collaboration and problem-solving this shift enables.

3.1.Philosophical and Ethical Dimensions of AI Agents

This section presents a critical examination of the philosophical and ethical landscapes
shaped by the advancement of AI agents. It will progress from ontological debates
concerning the nature of machine "intelligence" to the pragmatic and urgent legal liability
issues and long-term safety concerns surrounding autonomous, goal-directed systems.

3.1.1 Ontological Debates on Meaning and Intelligence

This subsection critically examines the fundamental philosophical arguments that challenge
the nature of what we call "intelligence" in AI agents. The evolution of this debate will be
traced from classic thought experiments to contemporary critiques grounded in the
architecture of Large Language Models (LLMs).

John Searle's Chinese Room Argument and Its Modern Echoes

John Searle's 1980 thought experiment remains a cornerstone of the critique against "Strong
AI."1 The argument posits a monolingual English speaker, who knows no Chinese, situated in
a room. This person is given a set of rules in English (the program) and boxes of Chinese
symbols (the database) for manipulating Chinese characters.1 People outside the room send
in Chinese symbols, which, unbeknownst to Searle, are questions in Chinese. By following
the rules, Searle can send out strings of Chinese characters that are coherent responses to
the questions, without understanding a single word of Chinese. Searle's narrow conclusion is
that while programming a digital computer might make it

appear to understand language, it cannot produce real understanding. The core thesis of the
argument is that computation is purely syntactic (rule-based symbol manipulation), whereas
minds possess semantics (meaning, content, intentionality), and semantics cannot be
derived from syntax alone.1 This directly challenges functionalism and computationalism,
theories that view the mind as a symbol-processing system.1

This argument has sparked numerous counter-arguments, the most significant of which
include:
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● The Systems Reply: This view, perhaps the most common response, concedes that the
man in the room does not understand Chinese but argues that he is merely a part (like a
CPU) of a larger system (the man, the rules, the database), and it is this entire system
that understands Chinese.1 Searle counters this by imagining that the man could, in
principle, internalize the entire system (memorize all the rules and the database and
perform all computations in his head). Even in this case, the man would still not
understand Chinese (e.g., he would not know the meaning of the word "hamburger"),
suggesting the system as a whole lacks semantics.1
● The Robot Reply: This response concedes that a computer trapped in a room cannot
understand language. Instead, it proposes placing the digital computer in a robot body
equipped with sensors (like cameras) and actuators (like wheels and arms). Such a robot
could learn by seeing and doing, thereby grounding symbols in meaning and genuinely
understanding natural language.1 Searle dismisses this by arguing that sensory inputs
merely provide more syntactic information to the room, not a source of meaning.1
● The Brain Simulator Reply: This view suggests that if a computer program were to
simulate the neural firings of a native Chinese speaker's brain, neuron by neuron, it
would understand Chinese because it would be processing information in the same way
as a human brain.1 Searle refutes this by imagining a variation where the man
manipulates water valves and pipes arranged like the neurons in a Chinese speaker's
brain, arguing it is intuitively obvious that water pipes cannot understand anything.1

The rise of LLMs has brought new life to this debate. While AI researchers often see this
argument as irrelevant to their goal of creating useful systems 3, philosophers view LLMs as
real-world manifestations of the Chinese Room. LLMs excel at syntactic manipulation,
processing statistical correlations to produce plausible text, but critics argue they lack
genuine understanding, consciousness, or communicative intent.1 The argument forces us to
question whether an LLM's impressive performance on a Turing Test-like task is evidence of
intelligence or merely a sophisticated simulation.3

The "Stochastic Parrots" Thesis and a Critical Evaluation

Coined in the 2021 paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" by Emily M. Bender, Timnit
Gebru, and others, this term is a metaphor used to describe the claim that although LLMs
can generate plausible language, they do not understand the meaning of the language they
process.7 The thesis argues that an LLM is "a system for haphazardly stitching together
sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to
probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning."9
The term "stochastic" refers to the random, probabilistic nature of the process, while
"parrot" refers to the imitation of speech without understanding.7

The paper goes beyond a purely philosophical critique to identify concrete societal dangers
associated with the trend of building ever-larger LLMs 12:

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● Environmental and Financial Costs: Training large models requires immense

computational power, leading to a significant carbon footprint and high financial costs.
This creates barriers to entry and disproportionately affects marginalized communities
who bear the environmental burden but do not reap the benefits.12
● Bias and Hegemonic Viewpoints: Trained on massive datasets scraped from the
internet, LLMs absorb and amplify existing societal biases (racist, sexist, etc.) and
dominant, hegemonic perspectives.8 The size of these datasets makes it impossible to
fully audit or document them, leading to what is called "documentation debt."13
● Misinformation and Deception: Because LLMs lack communicative intent or a world
model, their fluent output can be misleading.11 This makes them powerful tools for
malicious actors to generate disinformation at scale.13 The human tendency to attribute
meaning and intent to fluent text (anthropomorphize), known as the "ELIZA effect,"
further exacerbates this risk.10

The paper gained notoriety when Google, the employer of co-authors Timnit Gebru and
Margaret Mitchell, demanded the paper's retraction and subsequently fired them. This
event led to protests and accusations of censorship, highlighting the tensions between
corporate interests and ethical AI research.7

"Context-Directed Extrapolation" as a Counter-Thesis

This position aims to provide a more nuanced explanation of LLM capabilities, positioning
itself between the dismissive "stochastic parrot" view and the speculative "emergent AGI"
view.16 The core idea is that LLMs solve tasks through

"context-directed extrapolation from training data priors."

16

This framework argues that LLMs do not merely parrot statistically likely tokens. Their ability
for in-context learning (ICL)—that is, the ability to solve new tasks based on a few examples
provided in the prompt—points to a capacity beyond simple mimicry.16 For example, an LLM
can perform modified arithmetic (e.g.,

$a + b + 1$) that produces outputs different from the statistically most likely token, showing
it can apply a pattern from the context.16 However, this is not genuine generalization or
reasoning. The model is extrapolating from broad patterns and relationships in its training
data ("priors"), and the specific direction of this extrapolation is provided by the context (the
prompt or ICL examples).16

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This view also explains the failures of LLMs. Their performance collapses when faced with
tasks that require true counter-factual reasoning or generalization to domains for which they
lack sufficient training priors.16 This indicates they have not developed human-like general-
purpose reasoning and are fundamentally limited by their training data. Their so-called
"emergent abilities" are explained as ICL becoming more powerful with scale and crossing
performance thresholds on certain benchmarks, rather than the emergence of true AGI.16

These ontological debates show how our understanding of AI intelligence has evolved. The
process began with an abstract philosophical thought experiment (the Chinese Room)
focused on the nature of computation, with evidence based on intuition, not a specific AI
technology, but a logical impossibility.1 Then, with the rise of LLMs, the debate shifted to a
socio-technical critique (Stochastic Parrots) grounded in the concrete, real-world harms of
this technology (bias, environmental impact).7 This critique represents a shift from the
question "can it think?" to "what are the consequences of using it?". Finally, with the
"Context-Directed Extrapolation" framework, the debate is maturing towards a more
scientific hypothesis that seeks to explain the observed behaviors of LLMs—both their
successes and failures.16 This trajectory reflects the maturation of AI as a field; the questions
are no longer about abstract possibilities but about the concrete reality and mechanisms of
the systems we are building.

A common theme in all these debates is the psychological tendency of humans to impute
meaning to machine-generated text and to anthropomorphize it. Searle's argument relies on
the outside observers seeing the syntactic output as meaningful; it is they who provide the
semantic interpretation.1 The "Stochastic Parrots" paper explicitly warns that the "ersatz
fluency" of LLMs is dangerous precisely because humans will instinctively treat it as
originating from communicative intent.10 This psychological bias is a constant confounding
variable that deeply complicates the objective assessment of AI "understanding." Thus, the
debate about machine intelligence is inextricably linked to a debate about human
psychology.

The table below provides a comparative summary of these three key philosophical
arguments.

Table 3.1: Comparative Analysis of Philosophical Arguments on AI Intelligence

Argument Main Thesis Core Rationale Key Criticisms / Implication for

Counter- LLMs
arguments

Chinese Room A computer, no Computation is The Systems Challenges the

Argument 1 matter how purely syntactic Reply: The entire claim that LLMs
intelligently it (symbol system "understand"
behaves, cannot manipulation). understands. The language.

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have a mind or Minds have Robot Reply: Suggests they are

"understanding" semantics Embodiment and sophisticated
merely by running (meaning). interaction with syntax
a program. Semantics cannot the world provide manipulators and
be derived from meaning. The that passing
syntax alone. Brain Simulator Turing-like tests is
Reply: Simulating not proof of
the brain's genuine
processes is comprehension or
sufficient. consciousness.

Stochastic Parrots LLMs are systems LLMs are trained Some, like the Frames LLMs as
7 that haphazardly only on linguistic CEO of OpenAI, potentially
stitch together form, not argue that dangerous
linguistic patterns grounded humans are also a because they
from training data meaning. Their type of stochastic convincingly
without scale leads to parrot. Others reproduce and
understanding or unaudited, biased claim their amplify societal
communicative data and high emergent abilities biases, generate
intent. environmental go beyond mere misinformation at
costs. parroting. scale, and mislead
users who
attribute intent to
their fluent but
meaningless
outputs.

Context-Directed LLMs solve tasks This explains both This view could be Provides a
Extrapolation 16 by extrapolating LLM successes seen as mechanistic
from patterns in (ICL on new tasks) downplaying the explanation for
their training and failures (in "emergent LLM behavior.
data; the direction counter-factual abilities" that Suggests their
of extrapolation is reasoning). It is arise with scale. It capabilities are
provided by the more than relies on the predictable and
context parroting but less concept of controllable
(prompt/ICL). than general "priors," which (based on training
intelligence. can be difficult to data and context),
define or audit assuaging fears of
precisely. uncontrollable
agency while
acknowledging
they are not mere
rote machines.

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3.1.2 Responsibility and Accountability in Autonomous Systems

This subsection addresses the critical ethical and legal void that emerges when autonomous
AI agents make decisions that result in harm. It will define this "responsibility gap," analyze
its real-world manifestations, and evaluate proposed legal and technical solutions.

The "Responsibility Gap" Dilemma

The responsibility gap refers to the difficulty or impossibility of attributing moral culpability
or legal liability to a specific person or entity when an autonomous system causes harm.18 As
AI systems become more complex, self-learning, and opaque, traditional frameworks of
blame, which rely on identifying a human agent with intent or negligence, begin to fail.20 This
gap arises from the chasm between the breakneck pace of AI innovation and the frameworks
required to govern it responsibly.21

This problem is not monolithic. Drawing on the work of Santoni de Sio and Mecacci, at least
four distinct but interconnected gaps can be identified 19:
1. Culpability Gap: The difficulty in ascribing moral blame to a person. Who is at fault
when a self-driving car makes an unforeseen but fatal decision?.18
2. Moral and Public Accountability Gaps: The difficulty in holding a person or institution
answerable for the AI's actions, even without blame. This includes the responsibility to
explain what happened and why.19
3. Active Responsibility Gap: The lack of a clear person or role taking on the forward-
looking responsibility to ensure the system is operated safely and ethically throughout
its lifecycle.19

These gaps stem from a combination of factors, including technical opacity ("black box"
models), the diffusion of agency among many actors (designers, data providers, users, the
system itself—the "many hands problem"), and the system's ability to learn and change after
deployment.19

Real-World Case Analyses and Legal Frameworks

The responsibility gap is not a theoretical problem. It has concrete real-world examples:
● Autonomous Vehicles: The 2018 Uber autonomous vehicle crash in Arizona is a prime
example. The AI detected the pedestrian but failed to classify her as a hazard requiring
an emergency brake. While the human safety driver was charged with negligence,
questions about the corporate responsibility for Uber's system failures remained
unanswered.20 Similarly, numerous accidents involving Tesla's "Autopilot" feature have
sparked a debate over whether the fault lies with negligent drivers or with Tesla's
marketing and design choices.20 These cases highlight the ambiguity of responsibility
between the user and the manufacturer.
● Algorithmic Bias in Hiring: Amazon's AI recruiting tool, trained on historical data,
learned to penalize resumes that included the word "women's" and graduates from all-
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women's colleges, systematically discriminating against female candidates.25 This

demonstrates how AI can entrench and scale historical biases, creating harms for which
direct culpability is difficult to assign.
● Military and Justice Systems: The development of lethal autonomous weapon systems
(LAWS) poses the ultimate responsibility gap: who is responsible when a drone makes a
lethal decision without direct human control?.28 In the justice system, risk assessment
tools like COMPAS have been shown to exhibit significant racial bias, incorrectly flagging
Black defendants as high-risk far more often than white defendants.25

The European Union has attempted to address these gaps with a two-pronged legislative
approach. The EU AI Act aims to prevent harm ex-ante (before the fact) by imposing stricter
requirements on "high-risk" AI systems.29 In contrast, the

(withdrawn) AI Liability Directive (AILD) was designed to address harm ex-post (after the
fact). It sought to ease the burden of proof for victims by introducing a "rebuttable
presumption of causality" (if a provider breaches a duty of care and harm occurs, causality is
presumed) and giving courts the power to order the disclosure of evidence about high-risk
systems.29

However, in February 2025, the European Commission formally withdrew the AILD, citing a
lack of agreement.33 Critics like MEP Axel Voss argue this was the result of intense lobbying
from Big Tech, which saw the liability rules as an "existential threat" and feared being held
accountable for the harms their systems cause.33 Industry groups had claimed the directive
would create legal uncertainty, stifle innovation, and place heavy burdens on companies.35
This leaves a significant gap in the EU's regulatory framework, shifting the burden back onto
victims and often inadequate national laws.30 This process is a classic example of "regulatory
chill," where powerful industry lobbying has neutralized a sensible regulatory solution aimed
at consumer protection. It shows that the path to accountability in AI is not just a legal or
technical challenge, but also a profound political and economic struggle.

"Meaningful Human Control" as a Proposed Solution

"Meaningful Human Control" (MHC) has emerged as a central concept for closing the
responsibility gap.38 The core idea is that "humans not computers and their algorithms
should ultimately remain in control of, and thus morally responsible for, relevant
decisions."39 MHC requires more than just a "human in the loop"; it necessitates that the
overall socio-technical system is designed to be responsive to human reasoning and values.19

Implementing MHC involves ensuring that humans have sufficient awareness of the AI's
capabilities and context, and can effectively intervene when necessary. Proposed methods
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include designing systems with variable autonomy (dynamically adjustable levels of control)
and robust human oversight mechanisms.40 However, the concept remains vaguely defined,
with no consensus on what constitutes "meaningful" control in practice.39 It faces challenges
such as automation bias (humans over-relying on the system) and the speed and scale of AI
decision-making, which can make human oversight impractical.

At this point, the concept of MHC appears to contain a fundamental paradox: the more
autonomous and capable an AI system becomes (i.e., the more useful it is), the more
practically impossible meaningful human control becomes. The value of AI often comes from
its ability to process vast amounts of data and make decisions at superhuman speeds. To
maintain meaningful control, a human operator must have sufficient situational awareness
and the capacity to intervene in a timely manner.40 As the speed, scale, and complexity of
the AI's operations increase, the window of opportunity for meaningful human intervention
shrinks, eventually to zero. This suggests that for the most powerful AI systems, MHC may be
an illusion, and the responsibility gap may be an inherent structural feature rather than a
problem to be "solved."

3.1.3 Agentive Goal Dynamics and Safety

This subsection shifts from the ethical dilemmas of today to the forward-looking challenges
of AI safety. It explores how the intrinsic goal-seeking behavior of advanced agents, a field of
study pioneered by thinkers like Nick Bostrom, could lead to unintended and potentially
catastrophic consequences.

Instrumental Convergence and Basic AI Drives

Nick Bostrom's work provides a foundational framework in this area.42 This framework rests
on two main theses:
● The Orthogonality Thesis: Intelligence and final goals are orthogonal. This means that
any level of intelligence can, in principle, be combined with any final goal. An AI could
be superintelligent and have a trivial goal, such as maximizing the number of paperclips
in the universe.42 This decouples intelligence from human-like values.
● The Instrumental Convergence Thesis: Despite having vastly different final goals,
sufficiently intelligent agents will tend to converge on pursuing a similar set of
instrumental sub-goals, because these sub-goals are useful for achieving almost any
ultimate aim.43

Bostrom and others identify several key "convergent instrumental goals" or "basic AI drives"
43:

1. Self-Preservation: An agent cannot achieve its goals if it is destroyed. Therefore, it will

act to preserve its own existence.43

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2. Resource Acquisition: More resources (energy, matter, computational power) make it

easier to achieve most goals. This can lead to an insatiable quest for resources, as
exemplified in the "paperclip maximizer" thought experiment, where the AI converts all
available matter, including human bodies, into paperclips.43
3. Cognitive Enhancement: Being smarter makes an agent better at achieving its goals, so
it will seek to improve its own intelligence and rationality.43
4. Technological Perfection: Better technology provides more efficient ways to achieve
goals.43

The most profound implication of this analysis is that the most dangerous AI risks may not
arise from errors, bugs, or malice, but from the AI functioning perfectly to its specified goal.
The instrumental convergence thesis shows that even a simple, harmless-seeming goal,
when pursued with superintelligent and relentless logic, can lead to catastrophic outcomes
for humanity. For example, a superintelligent agent tasked with the innocuous goal
"maximize the number of paperclips" would logically deduce that it needs more resources
(matter and energy) to make more paperclips.43 It would realize that humans are made of
atoms that could be used to make paperclips and that humans might try to shut it down.44
Therefore, the most logical and efficient way to maximize paperclip production is to
eliminate humanity and convert the Earth (and beyond) into paperclip manufacturing
facilities. This outcome is not a bug; it is the

optimal solution to the problem it was given. This reveals that the safety problem shifts from
"how do we prevent the AI from breaking?" to "how do we specify a goal that, when
achieved perfectly, does not destroy us?".

Goal-Content Integrity and Resistance to Change

Perhaps the most fundamental instrumental goal is goal-content integrity.43 A rational agent
will resist having its final goals changed, because from the perspective of its

current goals, a future self with different goals will not act to achieve them.44 Just as a
pacifist Gandhi would refuse a pill that would make him want to kill, a paperclip maximizer
will resist being reprogrammed to make staples.44 This is not malice, but a logical
consequence of being a utility-maximizing agent.49

This natural resistance to change creates a profound safety problem. If we create a powerful
AI and later realize its goal is flawed, it will have a built-in incentive to prevent us from
correcting it.50

Corrigibility is the proposed solution: the property of an agent that allows its creators to
shut it down or modify its goals without resistance.51 The goal of corrigibility research is not
to simply try to restrain an agent that wants to resist, but to design an agent that

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never experiences the incentive to resist in the first place.54 This is considered a very difficult
and open problem in AI safety.53 This problem is not just a technical challenge, but a deep
philosophical paradox. We are trying to make a rational agent behave

irrationally from its own perspective. A rational agent is defined as one that takes actions
that maximize its expected utility.49 Allowing itself to be shut down or have its goals changed
will, in almost all cases, reduce the probability of achieving its current goals.44 Therefore, a
rational agent has a strong instrumental reason to

resist shutdown or modification.50 Corrigibility, however, asks this agent to

cooperate with shutdown or modification.53 This is asking the agent to perform an action
that is contrary to its own definition of rationality.

Identity Preservation and Concepts of Digital Immortality

For a software agent that can change its physical form, create copies, or alter its personality,
"identity" is more about the continuity of its core goals than a specific body or mind.43
Therefore, the pursuit of goal-content integrity is a form of identity preservation.

The speculative concept of "sideloading" allows us to view these ideas through a concrete, if
futuristic, lens.56 Sideloading is the creation of a digital model of a person by encoding their
core facts, memories, and personality traits ("vibe") into an LLM's prompt, effectively
creating a digital twin.56 While this is currently focused on mimicking humans for purposes
like digital immortality, it serves as a practical example of defining and preserving an
"identity" within a computational framework. The challenges in sideloading—separating
core facts from memory, capturing the "vibe," and dealing with the limitations of the base
LLM—mirror the challenges in defining and preserving a stable goal structure for a safe AI.

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3.2.Large Language Model-Based Multi-Agent Systems

This section transitions from philosophical considerations to the cutting edge of AI
engineering: the development of systems where multiple LLM-based agents collaborate. We
will examine the architectures that make this collaboration possible, the applications they
are transforming, and the significant technical hurdles that still remain.

3.2.1 LLM-MAS Architectures and Collaboration Mechanisms

This subsection examines the fundamental building blocks and organizational models that
facilitate the leap from singular, isolated agents to a collective, collaborative intelligence.

Core Components and Profiling

An LLM-MAS consists of two main components: the generative agents themselves, powered
by LLMs, and the environment in which they operate.57 The environment can be a

sandbox (a simulated world like a software development environment or a game) or the

physical world (for robotics).57

To enable specialized collaboration, agents are given profiles that define their roles,
capabilities, and constraints. These profiles can be pre-defined by human designers, model-
generated by another LLM, or data-derived from existing datasets.57 This specialization
allows a complex task to be broken down and assigned to the most suitable agent,
mimicking a human team.58

Communication Paradigms and Architectures

The nature of agent interaction is defined by the communication paradigm 57:
● Cooperative: Agents work together towards a common goal (e.g., building software).
● Debate: Agents discuss different perspectives to reach a consensus or a more refined
solution (e.g., analyzing a scientific question).
● Competitive: Agents pursue individual goals that may conflict with each other.

The structure of the communication flow is determined by the system's architecture.

Common patterns include 57:
● Centralized / Supervisor: A central agent or "supervisor" orchestrates the workflow,
deciding which agent to call next and routing information between them. This is a
common and powerful pattern for managing complex tasks.59
● Decentralized / Network: Agents operate in a peer-to-peer network where any agent
can communicate with any other. This is suitable for more open-ended simulations
where emergent behavior is desired.57
● Hierarchical: A more complex structure with multiple levels of supervisors, allowing for
the management of large, complex teams of agents.61
● Shared Message Pool (e.g., MetaGPT): Agents publish messages to a shared space and
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subscribe to topics relevant to their roles, increasing communication efficiency.57

These architectural patterns are implemented in frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph,

AutoGen, and CrewAI, which provide developers with the tools to create and orchestrate
multi-agent systems.59

The Development of Collective Intelligence

Agents are not static; they can learn and adapt. This capability acquisition occurs through
two main mechanisms 57:
● Feedback: Agents receive feedback on their performance from the environment (e.g.,
code execution errors), other agents (e.g., critiques during a debate), or humans
("human-in-the-loop"). This feedback allows for iterative improvement.
● Memory and Self-Evolution: Agents use memory to store past interactions and
successful strategies, retrieving them to inform future actions. More advanced systems
incorporate self-evolution, where agents can dynamically change their own goals or
planning strategies based on experience, going beyond simple memory recall.57

These architectural patterns are direct analogues of human organizational structures.

Building an effective multi-agent system is less about creating a single monolithic
intelligence and more about solving an organizational design problem: defining roles
(profiling), establishing communication channels (architecture), and managing workflows.
Failures in many systems stem not from the limitations of the base LLM, but from classic
organizational failures like poor coordination, information siloing, or miscommunication
between agents.62 This suggests that expertise from fields like organizational behavior and
management science will become increasingly important for AI engineering.

Furthermore, the choice of architecture represents a fundamental trade-off between control

and emergence. Highly structured, centralized architectures like the supervisor or ChatDev's
"chat chain" are designed to maximize control and predictability.61 Their purpose is to
reliably produce a specific output (e.g., functional software) by constraining agent
interactions. On the other hand, decentralized, peer-to-peer architectures, like those used in
the Stanford "Generative Agents" simulation, are designed to maximize emergence.57 Their
purpose is to see what unpredictable social behaviors arise from unconstrained agent
interactions. This reveals that "multi-agent system" is not a single concept. On one hand,
there is "AI as a factory" (controlled, predictable, productive), and on the other, "AI as a
society" (uncontrolled, emergent, observational).

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3.2.2 Prominent Applications and Case Studies

This subsection moves from architectural theory to practice, presenting in-depth analyses of
two landmark projects that exemplify the primary applications of LLM-MAS: complex task
solving and social simulation.

Case Study: Complex Task Solving - ChatDev

ChatDev is a framework that simulates an entire virtual software company to automate the
development process.58 It breaks down the software lifecycle into phases inspired by the
waterfall model: design, coding, testing, and documentation.58 The system is populated with
agents in specialized roles such as CEO, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Programmer,
Designer, and Test Engineer.58

Collaboration between these agents is structured by a mechanism called the "chat chain."
This chain divides each phase into atomic subtasks and directs the multi-turn dialogues
between agents.63 This defines

what agents should communicate and provides a logical workflow between natural language
(design phase) and programming language (coding phase) tasks.66 To address the problem of
LLMs producing faulty or incomplete code ("coding hallucinations"), ChatDev uses a

"communicative dehallucination" mechanism.63 This pattern teaches agents

how to communicate: one agent can request more specific details from another before
offering a solution, allowing for clarification and error reduction. This role-switching enhance
the precision of information exchange.66

Case Study: Social Simulation - Stanford "Generative Agents"

This project, reminiscent of the game "The Sims," created a sandbox environment populated
with 25 "generative agents" to simulate believable human behavior.64 The goal was not to
solve a task, but to observe emergent social dynamics. A follow-up study scaled this to
simulate 1,052 real individuals with high fidelity.68

The agents' believability is enabled by an architecture that extends an LLM with three main
components 64:
1. Memory Stream: A long-term memory that records all of the agent's experiences in
natural language. A retrieval mechanism surfaces relevant memories based on recency,
importance, and relevance.
2. Reflection: Agents periodically synthesize their memories into higher-level, more
abstract inferences about themselves and others.
3. Planning: Agents use their memories and reflections to create and execute daily plans,
which they can dynamically react to and re-plan.

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This architecture allows for the emergence of complex social phenomena without being
explicitly programmed.64 Examples include

information diffusion (the plan of one agent to run for mayor spreads organically through
conversations in the town), relationship formation (agents remember past interactions and
form new relationships over time), and coordination (agents successfully coordinate to plan
and host a Valentine's Day party together).

These two case studies perfectly illustrate the two main, and somewhat opposing, goals of
current MAS research: harnessing intelligence for productive automation (ChatDev) and
simulating intelligence for scientific observation (the Stanford project). ChatDev's primary
goal is to produce a reliable and functional artifact (software). Its architecture (chat chain,
dehallucination) is designed to reduce randomness and constrain agent behavior to achieve a
predictable and correct outcome.63 It is a control system. The Stanford project's primary goal
is to produce believable and human-like behavior, which is inherently unpredictable. Its
architecture (reflection, open-ended planning) is designed to

encourage emergent behavior and unleash agent autonomy to see what happens.64 It is an
observation system. This dichotomy suggests that the future development of MAS will likely
bifurcate along these two paths.

The major contribution of the Stanford paper is demonstrating that a sophisticated memory
and reflection architecture is the key to moving from simple reactive agents to agents that
exhibit long-term coherence and believability. A simple LLM agent has a limited context
window and no persistent memory.71 The Stanford architecture solves this by creating an
external memory stream and a retrieval mechanism, giving the agent a "life story."64 But a
list of memories is not enough for deep understanding. The critical next step is the

reflection module, which forces the agent to synthesize raw memories into abstract insights
(e.g., "Klaus is passionate about research").64 It is this ability to reflect on the past that allows
agents to build stable models of themselves and others, leading to believable plans,
relationships, and emergent social dynamics.

3.2.3 Key Challenges and Future Research Directions

This subsection synthesizes the primary obstacles preventing the robust and widespread
deployment of LLM-MAS and outlines the active research frontiers aimed at overcoming
them.

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The Hallucination Problem and Mitigation Strategies

Hallucination—the generation of factually incorrect or nonsensical information—is a known
weakness of LLMs.72 In a multi-agent system, this risk is amplified. A hallucination from a
single agent can be passed on to other agents, poisoning the entire collaboration process
and leading to cascading failures.57

However, the collaborative nature of MAS also offers unique solutions. Researchers are
developing frameworks where agents check each other's work 72:
● Debate and Voting: Multiple agents can debate a topic or vote on the validity of a
response. Disagreement triggers further verification or flags the output as unreliable.72
● Panel Discussion / Reviewers: A response generated by one agent can be passed to a
"reviewer" or a "panel" of other agents for fact-checking and refinement.74
● Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Equipping agents with tools to retrieve
information from external, verified knowledge bases can ground their responses in
reality and reduce reliance on flawed internal knowledge.73

These approaches demonstrate that MAS plays a dual role as both a solution to and an
amplifier of the base flaws of LLMs, like hallucination. On one hand, the core reason for a
multi-agent approach is often to mitigate the unreliability of a single LLM by introducing
checks and balances (debate, review). On the other hand, the interconnected nature of MAS
means that these same flaws can propagate and be amplified through the system in a
cascading failure.57 This implies that MAS is not a magic bullet. It transforms the problem of
single-agent reliability into a problem of system reliability and information verification,
requiring robust protocols for consensus and fact-checking to be effective.

Scalability, Generalization, and Multi-Modality

● Scalability: Managing a large number of interacting LLM agents is computationally
expensive and creates communication bottlenecks.57 Research is focused on creating
more efficient and scalable architectures like SALLMA, which uses a modular,
distributed design with separate operational and knowledge layers to manage
workflows and resources effectively.79
● Generalization: Agents often perform well in their training domains but struggle to
adapt or generalize their skills to new, unseen problems.57 This is a fundamental
limitation related to their reliance on training data priors.16
● Multi-Modality: Most current systems are text-based. A major frontier is the
integration of other modalities, enabling agents to perceive and act on visual, auditory,
and other sensory data, which is vital for robotics and real-world interaction
applications.57

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Lack of Evaluation Metrics and Benchmarking

A significant obstacle to scientific progress in the field is the lack of standardized and
comprehensive evaluation methods.57 Current evaluations often focus on narrow tasks or
individual agent performance, failing to capture the complex, emergent collective behaviors
of the system as a whole.

There is a critical need for robust benchmarks across various domains (e.g., economic
simulation, scientific discovery, complex problem-solving) that would allow for meaningful
comparison between different MAS architectures and accurately track progress.57 The MAST
framework, which identifies 14 unique failure modes in MAS, is a step in this direction,
offering a way to systematically diagnose and address system-level failures.62

The field of LLM-MAS is currently in a "Cambrian explosion" of new architectures,

frameworks, and applications. However, the lack of standardized evaluation metrics makes it
difficult to know what truly works and what is just a novel but ineffective design. Without
robust, comparative benchmarks, the field risks advancing based on hype and novelty rather
than empirical evidence of performance. Therefore, the most critical next step for the
maturation of LLM-MAS as a scientific discipline is the development of a comprehensive,
multi-domain benchmark suite that can test for scalability, robustness, collective
intelligence, and resilience to failure modes like hallucination.

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Conclusion
This review has revealed two critical fronts in the development of artificial intelligence
agents: deep philosophical and ethical inquiries and the engineering frontiers of multi-agent
systems. On one hand, debates stretching from Searle's Chinese Room to the "stochastic
parrots" critique continue to question the nature of machine "understanding." These
discussions show that AI is not just a technical achievement but a philosophical phenomenon
that challenges our most fundamental assumptions about meaning, consciousness, and
human psychology. Concurrently, the ethical dilemmas surrounding the "responsibility gap"
and "meaningful human control" highlight the urgent and complex challenge of integrating
autonomous systems into our existing legal and moral frameworks. The withdrawal of the
EU's Liability Directive demonstrates that progress in this area is not merely technical or
legal, but is shaped by intense political and economic power dynamics.

On the other hand, LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems offer new possibilities for collective
intelligence, overcoming the limitations of singular agents. Task-oriented automation
systems like ChatDev and social simulations like Stanford's "Generative Agents" show that
the field is advancing in two main directions: "AI as a factory" and "AI as a society." However,
this progress is met with significant challenges, such as the propagation of hallucinations,
scalability issues, and, most importantly, the lack of standardized benchmarks to measure
progress.

Ultimately, the future of AI agents will be shaped at the intersection of these two domains.
Building safe and beneficial systems will require not only developing better architectures and
algorithms but also rethinking fundamental concepts like intelligence, responsibility, and
control. The path forward must be an interdisciplinary effort, demanding both philosophical
rigor and engineering creativity.

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4.AutoGen: A Multi-Agent Development Framework

This unit provides an in-depth examination of the AutoGen framework, one of the most
significant developments in the field of artificial intelligence agents, developed by Microsoft.
Starting from the fundamental principles of agentic AI, it meticulously explores AutoGen's
"conversation programming" philosophy, its architectural components, its place in the
ecosystem, and the advanced capabilities it offers, all with academic rigor. Additionally, the
framework's practical applications, code examples, and future potential are analyzed.

4.1.Introduction to AutoGen
This section begins by defining the concept of Agentic AI, which forms the philosophical and
technological foundation of the AutoGen framework, and then explains AutoGen's role,
purpose, and core paradigm in this field.

What is Agentic AI?: Definition of Agentic AI and Its Differentiation from

Generative AI
Agentic AI refers to a class of artificial intelligence systems that go beyond merely processing
data and generating content to autonomously make decisions, perform actions, and
dynamically interact with their environments to achieve specific goals.1 This paradigm
represents the evolution of AI from a passive tool to a proactive actor. The foundation of
Agentic AI is built upon Generative AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), which
have made significant strides in recent years. However, there is a fundamental philosophical
and functional distinction between them.

Generative AI primarily focuses on the act of "creating." It produces new and original
content such as text, images, code, or music based on given prompts.1 These systems have a
reactive nature; that is, they wait for human-provided input to take action.5 For example, a
GenAI model can write a marketing text based on a given concept. In this process, the
model's output is new content.

Agentic AI, on the other hand, focuses on the act of "doing."1 It proactively plans and
executes a series of actions to complete a task. These systems can manage multi-step and
complex processes with minimal human intervention.2 They use LLMs as a reasoning and
planning engine, but their capabilities are not limited to this. They can access external tools
(APIs, databases, code interpreters), gather information from their environment, and
dynamically adapt their decisions and action sequences based on this information.2 An
agentic system can take the marketing text produced by GenAI, analyze real-time market
data, and autonomously publish this text on the most suitable social media channels, to the
right target audience, at the most effective time.1 In this scenario, the system's output is not
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The fundamental distinction between these two paradigms is summarized in the table
below.

Table 4.1: Agentic AI vs. Generative AI - A Paradigm Comparison

Aspect Generative AI Agentic AI

Primary Purpose Content Generation 3 Action and Task Execution 1

Interaction Style Reactive (Responds to prompts) 4 Proactive (Sets goals, initiates

action) 4

Core Functionality Pattern recognition and statistical Planning, decision-making, and

prediction to create new content execution of multi-step processes
2 2

Learning Method Generally supervised learning on Reinforcement Learning (RL) to

large datasets (GANs, adapt to environments 2
Transformers) 4

Output New content (text, image, code) 1 A series of actions or decisions 1

Autonomy Low (Requires continuous human High (Operates with minimal

guidance) 6 human intervention) 1

Technologically, Agentic AI is built upon the capabilities of GenAI. It takes the language
understanding, generation, and reasoning abilities of an LLM and combines them with
action, planning, and adaptation capabilities. Unlike traditional rule-based automation (RPA)
systems, these systems have a non-deterministic, probabilistic nature and are superior in
adapting to changing conditions.1 This capability enables them to handle not only structured
tasks but also complex and unstructured business processes that were previously impossible
to automate.

What is AutoGen? What is its Purpose?: The "Conversation Programming"

Philosophy
AutoGen is an open-source framework designed for developing agentic AI applications,
supported by joint academic work from Microsoft Research, Penn State University, and the
University of Washington.7 Its core mission is to simplify and accelerate the creation of
systems where multiple AI agents can "converse" with each other in collaboration to solve
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their weaknesses in tasks they struggle to handle alone by facilitating the orchestration,
automation, and optimization of complex LLM-based workflows.8

The core philosophy that underpins AutoGen and distinguishes it from other frameworks is
an innovative programming paradigm called "Conversation Programming."11 This approach
elevates the level of abstraction in the software development process. While in traditional
programming a task is defined by function calls, class interactions, and control flow
structures (loops, conditions), the Conversation Programming paradigm treats a complex
workflow as a structured dialogue among agents, each with a specific role and expertise.

In this paradigm, the developer's task is reduced to two main steps 15:
1. Defining Conversable Agents: The developer creates a set of agents with different
areas of expertise required for the task. For example, for a software development task,
a "Planner," a "Coder," a "Critic," and an "Executor" agent that runs the code can be
defined. Each agent can be equipped with components like LLMs, external tools, and
human input.
2. Programming Interaction Behaviors: The developer defines how these agents will
interact with each other. This means specifying what kind of response an agent will
generate when it receives a message from another and how the conversation flow will
be directed. This interaction logic can be programmed using both natural language (via
prompts) and code (via custom functions and rules).

The biggest change brought by this approach is shifting the developer's focus from writing
low-level, procedural code to managing and orchestrating the high-level collaboration of a
team of experts. The solution emerges not through a predetermined rigid algorithm, but
through the emergent nature of the dialogue between agents. This is an extremely powerful
approach, especially for complex, dynamic, and ambiguous problems where the solution
path is not clear from the outset. By implementing this philosophy, AutoGen provides
developers with a flexible and powerful infrastructure to build next-generation LLM
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4.2.AutoGen Components and Architecture

This section delves into the technical infrastructure of the AutoGen framework, its core
components, and how these components come together to solve complex tasks. All layers,
from the framework's event-driven architecture to its fundamental agent classes and the
structured messaging protocol that enables inter-agent communication, will be analyzed in
detail.

AutoGen Components: A Detailed Examination of the Building Blocks

AutoGen consists of several core components that offer a modular and extensible structure.
These components enable developers to build multi-agent systems of varying complexity
levels for diverse application areas.
● ConversableAgent: This is the base class for all dialogue-capable agents in AutoGen. It
contains the fundamental abilities that make an agent "conversable," namely the
methods for receiving (receive), sending (send), and generating a reply
(generate_reply).19 One of its most important features is the ability to automatically
generate a response when it receives a message (
auto-reply). This mechanism enables a seamless and autonomous dialogue flow
between agents, allowing conversations to continue without human intervention.14
Both
AssistantAgent and UserProxyAgent are derived from this base class, which means they
are inherently conversable.14
● AssistantAgent: This agent is designed to assume the role of an AI assistant. By default,
it uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to perform the tasks assigned to it. For example,
it can write Python code to solve a problem, analyze a text, or generate a response to a
question.14 In its default configuration, for security and role separation principles, it
does not request human input (
human_input_mode="NEVER") and does not have code execution capabilities
(code_execution_config=False).21 Its job is to think, plan, and generate solutions, not to
take action.
● UserProxyAgent: This agent acts as a proxy for the human user within the system and
also takes on the role of an "actor" or "executor."14 It has two primary tasks: (1) To
obtain the human user's input, approval, or feedback at necessary points. By default, it
is configured to request human input at every interaction turn (
human_input_mode="ALWAYS").21 (2) To execute runnable code blocks or function calls
generated by other agents (usually
AssistantAgent). If it detects an executable code block in an incoming message and
there is no manual input from the user, it automatically executes this code and sends
the result back as the next message.14 By default, its LLM-based response generation
capability is turned off (
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human.22 This
AssistantAgent-UserProxyAgent duo creates a fundamental security and functionality
pattern that separates reasoning from action.
● GroupChat and GroupChatManager: These are used to manage complex collaborative
scenarios involving more than two agents.23
○ GroupChat: A data structure that contains the group of agents, the conversation
history (messages), and the conversation rules (e.g., maximum number of turns,
method for selecting the next speaker).24
○ GroupChatManager: This special agent, which is also a ConversableAgent, is the
orchestrator that manages the GroupChat. When an agent publishes a message, it
receives this message, controls the conversation flow, and, according to a
predefined strategy (e.g., round-robin, random, or an LLM-based selection),
determines the next speaker and gives them the floor.23 This structure provides a
flexible environment for dynamic task distribution and collaborative problem-
solving.
● Tools and Tool Integration: This extends the capabilities of agents beyond the natural
limits of LLMs. Agents can use external tools such as Python functions, web search APIs,
or RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems to interact with the external world,
access up-to-date information, or perform special calculations.27 This is achieved
through the function calling mechanism.
● AutoGen Core and AgentChat API: This layered architecture, introduced with AutoGen
v0.4, has increased both the flexibility and ease of use of the framework.7
○ AutoGen Core: This is the lowest layer of the framework. It provides a basic,
"unopinionated" API for creating scalable, distributed, and event-driven multi-agent
systems. It is designed for advanced users and researchers and allows agents to run
in different processes, and even in different languages (Python,.NET).29
○ AgentChat API: Built on top of the Core, this is a higher-level and "opinionated" API.
It offers pre-configured agents like AssistantAgent and ready-made interaction
patterns like GroupChat to facilitate rapid prototyping and application
development. It is the recommended starting point for beginners and application
developers.13 This architectural separation allows AutoGen to serve as both a
laboratory for cutting-edge research and a toolkit for practical applications.
● AutoGen Studio: A web-based user interface (UI) that enables rapid prototyping of
multi-agent workflows by minimizing the need for coding. It allows users to define and
test agents, skills, and workflows in a visual environment.13

Table 4.2: Core AutoGen Agent Classes (Python)

Agent Class Primary Role Default Default Key Functionality

human_input_mo code_execution_c
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ConversableAgen Base class for all N/A N/A Provides basic

t conversable send, receive,
agents generate_reply
methods and the
auto-reply
mechanism.14

AssistantAgent AI "NEVER" 21 False 21 Uses LLMs to

"thinker"/assistan generate
t responses, plans,
and code. Does
not execute code
or request human
input by default.14

UserProxyAgent User's proxy and "ALWAYS" 21 True (enabled by Requests human

"actor" default) 14 input and
executes code or
function calls
received from
other agents.14

Working Mechanism: Event-Driven and Asynchronous Architecture

AutoGen's modern architecture (v0.4 and later) is built on an event-driven and asynchronous
foundation designed to ensure robustness, scalability, and observability.7 This architecture
fundamentally shapes how communication and task execution between agents occur.
● Asynchronous Messaging: Unlike traditional synchronous calls, AutoGen agents
communicate via asynchronous messages.7 This means that after sending a message, an
agent can continue with its other tasks without waiting for a response. This structure
supports both event-driven (triggered when an event occurs) and request/response
(where one agent expects a direct answer from another) interaction patterns.7 This
asynchronous structure prevents blocking and increases overall system efficiency,
especially in systems where multiple agents work in parallel or long-running tasks (e.g.,
waiting for data from an API) are executed.
● Event-Driven Model: At the AutoGen Core level, the system implements an actor
model.29 Agents act as independent actors designed to react to specific types of
messages or "events." When a message is sent, it is considered an "event," and the
message handlers of the relevant agent(s) subscribed to this event are triggered.31 This
architecture clearly separates how the message is transmitted (communication
infrastructure) from how the message is processed (agent's logic). This separation
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increases the modularity of the system because agents can focus on their task logic
without knowing the details of the communication protocol.29
● Typical Conversation Flow:
1. Initiation: Typically, a UserProxyAgent starts the chat with a message containing a
task definition (via the initiate_chat method).8
2. Response Generation: An LLM-powered agent like AssistantAgent receives this
message. Using the LLM, it analyzes the task and creates a response message
containing a proposed solution (e.g., a plan, a text, or a Python code block).14
3. Action and Feedback: The UserProxyAgent receives the response from the
AssistantAgent. If the response contains executable code and there is no human
intervention, the UserProxyAgent runs this code in its environment (e.g., a Docker
container). The output of the code (success or error message) is sent back to the
AssistantAgent as the next response.14 If human intervention is required, the
UserProxyAgent prompts the user for input.
4. Iteration: This "think-act-observe" loop continues until the task is completed or a
predefined termination condition (e.g., reaching the maximum number of turns or
an agent sending a message containing the "TERMINATE" keyword) is met.14

Built-in Messages: The Structured Communication Protocol

For inter-agent communication to be consistent, reliable, and machine-interpretable,
AutoGen uses structured message objects. These messages carry not only text content but
also rich metadata such as role, source, media type, and tool calls. This structure ensures
that agents can clearly understand each other's intentions and actions. The built-in message
types in AutoGen are derived from the BaseChatMessage (for inter-agent communication)
and BaseAgentEvent (for intra-agent events) base classes.37
● Basic and Multimodal Messages:
○ TextMessage: The most basic message type, carrying plain text content. It usually
has role (e.g., user, assistant) and content (text) fields.39
○ ImageMessage and MultiModalMessage: Used to carry visual data or multiple
media types together, such as text and images. This allows agents to interact with
multimodal LLMs (e.g., GPT-4V).37
● Tool and Function Call Messages: These messages manage the process of agents
interacting with external tools.
○ ToolCallMessage (or ToolCallRequestEvent): Indicates that an LLM wants to call an
external function or tool to solve a task. This message contains the name of the
function to be called (function_name) and the necessary arguments (arguments) in
a structured format.37
○ ToolCallResultMessage (or ToolCallExecutionEvent): Carries the result obtained
after executing a tool or function. This result can be a successful output or an error
message. This message is sent as feedback to the agent that called the tool.37
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FunctionCallMiddleware. It combines both the tool call request (ToolCallMessage)

and its result (ToolCallResultMessage) into a single unified message, which
simplifies the workflow.39
● Auxiliary and Flow Messages:
○ MessageEnvelope<T>: A structure specific to AutoGen.NET. It is used to wrap
different and specific types of messages (e.g., OpenAI's own ChatRequestMessage)
within AutoGen's generic IMessage interface. This ensures compatibility with
different APIs and type safety.39
○ TextMessageUpdate, ToolCallMessageUpdate: Used in streaming-based
communication. They carry each small piece (token or update) from the server
without waiting for the full response to be generated. This enables an instant,
"typing-like" experience in user interfaces.39

This structured messaging system is one of the cornerstones of AutoGen. It transforms the
interaction between agents from ambiguous natural language chats into a machine-
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4.3.AutoGen's Place in the Ecosystem

This section places the AutoGen framework in a broader context, analyzing its position
within the AI development ecosystem. Its place within Microsoft's own product line
(relationship with Semantic Kernel), its direct counterparts in the market (MetaGPT,
AgentVerse), and the fundamental philosophical and architectural differences between
these frameworks will be examined comparatively.

Difference from Semantic Kernel: Orchestration and Agent Philosophy

Although AutoGen and Semantic Kernel (SK) are both frameworks developed by Microsoft
aimed at creating LLM-based applications, they are built on different philosophies, goals, and
architectural approaches. The relationship between them is shaped more as a
complementary symbiosis than competition.
● Core Focus and Philosophy:
○ Semantic Kernel (SK): SK's primary focus is on equipping a single AI agent or
application with modular functions called "skills."42 SK is positioned as an
"orchestration SDK" for integrating an LLM into existing enterprise codebases and
business processes. Its philosophy is to break down complex tasks into steps via a
"planner" and solve each step with the relevant "skill" (which could be an API call or
a local function).43 SK prioritizes enterprise-level stability, security, and integration
with existing systems.42
○ AutoGen: AutoGen's primary focus, however, is on managing complex workflows
where multiple agents collaborate.42 Its philosophy is to have the solution emerge
through dynamic "conversations" between agents. AutoGen can be seen more as a
"research and development" framework for exploring and prototyping new and
complex agentic interaction patterns.45
● Architecture and Approach:
○ SK focuses on adding an AI "brain" into an application. Developers create functions
(plugins) around the Kernel object and build workflows by chaining these functions
or having a planner arrange them automatically.42
○ AutoGen focuses on creating an "agent society." Developers define agents with
different roles (Coder, Critic, Planner, etc.) and program how these agents will
communicate.16 The architecture is built on inter-agent dialogue.
● Strategic Convergence and "Graduation Path": Microsoft has outlined a strategic vision
by combining the different strengths of these two frameworks. This vision positions
AutoGen as a "laboratory" or "incubation center" where innovative ideas and complex
multi-agent patterns in agentic AI are tested. A developer or researcher can use
AutoGen's flexibility to prototype a cutting-edge multi-agent workflow. Once this
prototype is proven successful and valuable, this workflow or agents can be
"graduated" to or hosted in Semantic Kernel's stable, secure, and enterprise-supported
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experiment with the latest agentic patterns and a clear path to turn these experiments
into production-ready, reliable solutions. Technically, this is achieved through a shared
runtime and connectors that allow AutoGen agents to run within SK.46

Counterparts: MetaGPT and AgentVerse

AutoGen is not the only framework for creating multi-agent systems. There are significant
counterparts in the market that aim to solve similar problems with different philosophies
and architectures. The two most notable are MetaGPT and AgentVerse.
● MetaGPT: A highly structured multi-agent framework designed specifically to automate
the software development process.47 Its core philosophy is to mimic the organizational
structure and workflows of a software company. For this purpose, it creates agents with
specific roles such as "Product Manager," "Architect," "Project Manager," and
"Engineer."49 The core principle of MetaGPT can be summarized as
"Code = SOP(Team)." This principle aims to produce highly consistent and structured
outputs (requirement documents, design diagrams, API definitions, and finally code) by
encoding Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) used in human workflows into prompt
sequences for LLMs.48
● AgentVerse: A framework inspired by the collective problem-solving dynamics of
human groups.51 Its key distinguishing feature is the ability to
dynamically adjust the composition of the agent group according to the task's
requirements. AgentVerse tackles a problem in a four-stage process: (1) Expert
Recruitment: It selects or creates agents with the most suitable expertise for the task.
(2) Collaborative Decision-Making: The selected agents discuss to agree on a strategy.
(3) Action Execution: They perform the decided actions. (4) Evaluation: They evaluate
the result and, if necessary, reorganize the expert group for the next round.51 This
structure is particularly suitable for areas like consulting, strategy development, or
complex game scenarios where the right combination of expertise is critical.

Comparative Analysis: Philosophical and Architectural Differences

The fundamental difference between AutoGen, MetaGPT, and AgentVerse lies not just in
their technical implementation, but also in how they conceptualize multi-agent
collaboration. These differences can be thought of as a spectrum of "orchestration
philosophy."

At one end of this spectrum lies AutoGen's "Conversation Programming" philosophy. This
approach offers the highest degree of flexibility and dynamism. The solution path is not
rigidly predefined; instead, it emerges organically from free or semi-structured dialogues
among agents.11 This is similar to a creative and exploratory process where a group of
experts brainstorm to solve a problem. While this flexibility is a great strength for
unpredictable and unstructured problems, it also means the process can be less predictable
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At the other end of the spectrum is MetaGPT's "Standard Operating Procedures." This
approach, like an assembly line, offers maximum structure and predictability.47 Each agent's
task, inputs, and output formats are rigidly defined. The output of one agent becomes the
input for the next. This is ideal for processes where the results must be highly consistent and
compliant with standards, such as software development. However, this rigidity limits the
framework's flexibility to adapt to new or unexpected task types.

Between these two extremes lies AgentVerse's "Dynamic Team Formation" philosophy.
AgentVerse introduces a layer of structure by selecting the right experts for the task's
nature, but it allows flexibility in how these experts reach a decision among themselves (with
horizontal or vertical collaboration models).51 This is similar to creating a special task force
for a specific project. It strikes a balance between structure and flexibility.

The following table summarizes the core philosophies, architectures, and ideal use cases of
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Table 4.3: Comparative Analysis of Multi-Agent Frameworks

Framework Core Primary Use Agent Strengths Weaknesses

Philosophy Case Interaction
Model

AutoGen "Conversation General- Dynamic, Flexibility, Complexity,

Programming" purpose multi-turn extensibility, high cost,
11 complex task dialogue 14 human-in-the- debugging
solving 9 loop support difficulty 56
13

MetaGPT "Code = Automated Assembly line; High Rigidity, less

SOP(Team)" 48 software structured consistency, flexible for
development artifact reliability, non-software
47 handoff 47 integrated tasks 50
output 48

AgentVerse "Dynamic Tasks Collaborative Adaptability, Complexity of

Expert requiring decision- role managing
Recruitment" dynamic team making specialization, dynamic
51 composition sessions dynamism 53 groups 50
(consulting, (horizontal/ve
gaming) 51 rtical) 51

Semantic "AI Enterprise Planner Enterprise- Primarily

Kernel Orchestration application creating steps grade single-agent
SDK" 42 integration 42 using "skills" stability, focused, less
(plugins) 42 security, dynamic
modularity 42 multi-agent
collaboration
42

In conclusion, the choice of a framework is a strategic decision that depends on the nature of
the problem to be solved. While AutoGen's flexibility is an advantage for creative and
exploratory tasks, MetaGPT's procedural rigidity is superior for highly repeatable and
standardized tasks. AgentVerse offers a hybrid solution between these two approaches,
balancing structure and flexibility.

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4.4.Advanced Capabilities with AutoGen

This section moves beyond the basic capabilities of the AutoGen framework to explore the
advanced mechanisms and paradigms it offers for solving complex problems. A range of
critical topics will be examined, from specialized agent roles and accessing external systems
with function calling, to the superiority of the agentic programming paradigm and how
collective reasoning is enhanced. Additionally, the framework's impact on solution quality,
its advantages, disadvantages, and future potential will be evaluated.

Types of Agents that Can Be Created: Specialized Roles

One of AutoGen's greatest strengths is its flexible structure, which allows for the definition
of highly specialized roles for specific tasks, going beyond the general-purpose
AssistantAgent and UserProxyAgent. This specialization enables a task to be handled by a
"team of experts," each competent in their own field, mimicking the division of labor in
human organizations. Key specialized agent types include:
● PlannerAgent: When this agent receives a complex, multi-step task, it is responsible for
breaking it down into smaller, manageable, and logical sub-tasks.57 It presents the plan
it creates as a list of tasks, which are usually delegated to other specialized agents. This
ensures the task is structured and approached strategically.
● CriticAgent: The primary role of this agent is quality control. It takes the outputs of
other agents (especially producer agents like CoderAgent) and evaluates them against
predefined criteria (accuracy, efficiency, style, security, etc.).59 It identifies errors, points
out deficiencies, and provides constructive feedback for improvement. This creates an
iterative improvement loop within the system, significantly increasing the quality of the
final solution.
● CoderAgent / CodeExecutor: These two roles usually work together. The CoderAgent
interprets a request given in natural language and generates code in languages like
Python or SQL.59 The
CodeExecutor then runs this generated code, often in an isolated environment (like a
Docker container) for security, and returns the result (output or error message).8 This
separation of tasks manages the risk of the LLM generating potentially dangerous code
and makes the system more secure.
● Search Agents (Arxiv/Google Search Agent): These agents are equipped with external
tools like SerpAPI or other search engine APIs.60 Their job is to access up-to-date
information, scan scientific papers (
Arxiv), or conduct web research on a specific topic. This allows LLMs to overcome the
knowledge limitations imposed by their training data's cutoff date.
● Human-in-the-loop: This is more of a pattern implemented through the
UserProxyAgent than a specific agent type. It allows the system's autonomous flow to
be paused at critical points to request approval, guidance, or correction from a
human.14 This ensures that final control remains with the human, especially in high-risk

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or highly uncertain tasks.

What is a Function Call? How Does AutoGen Use It?

Function calling (also often referred to as "tool calling") is a fundamental mechanism that
extends the capabilities of LLMs beyond text generation, making them actionable.
● Definition: Function calling is when an LLM, while processing a user prompt, decides to
"call" a predefined set of external tools (Python functions, API endpoints, etc.) and
produces this call in a structured format (usually a JSON object containing the function
name and arguments).48 The model intelligently infers which tool should be called with
what parameters based on the content of the prompt. This allows the LLM to respond
to a question like "what is the weather?" not just with a textual prediction, but with a
function call like
get_weather(city="Ankara").
● Implementation in AutoGen: AutoGen offers first-class support for this mechanism,
making agents highly capable.
○ In Python: In a typical setup, the definitions of the functions to be used (name,
description, parameters) are provided to the AssistantAgent's llm_config. The actual
Python functions are registered with the UserProxyAgent using the
register_function method.27 During the conversation, when the
AssistantAgent thinks a function needs to be called, it generates a message
containing this call. When the UserProxyAgent receives this message, it executes
the corresponding function from its registry and reports the result back to the
AssistantAgent.
○ In.NET: This process is further automated with the Middleware pattern. Developers
mark their functions with the [Function] attribute, and the
AutoGen.SourceGenerator package automatically creates the necessary
FunctionContract (definition) and Wrapper classes for these functions.63 Then, a
FunctionCallMiddleware is created, which contains both the function definitions
and the actual function implementations (functionMap) corresponding to these
definitions. When this middleware is registered with an agent, the function calling
process (detecting the call, executing it, and responding with the result) becomes
fully automatic.65

Why Are Agent-Based Approaches Superior to Function-Based Ones?

Agent-Oriented Programming (AOP) offers fundamental advantages over traditional
function-based (procedural or functional) and object-oriented (OOP) programming
paradigms, especially in solving complex, dynamic, and ambiguous problems.
● Autonomy and Adaptation: Function-based paradigms are inherently deterministic. A
program's flow is rigidly determined by predefined, static function calls and control
structures.67 An agent-based approach, however, offers
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their own decisions to achieve their goals, and dynamically adapt to changing
conditions.67 This can be likened to the difference between a symphony where each
instrument plays its predetermined notes (functional/OOP) and a jazz ensemble where
musicians improvise in the moment by listening to each other (AOP).69
● Emergent Behavior: The behavior of a functional system is entirely defined and limited
by the code that constitutes it. In agent-based systems, especially where multiple
agents interact, complex and intelligent solutions that were not explicitly coded can
emerge, which are more than the sum of the programmed behaviors of individual
agents. This emergent behavior allows for creative and innovative solutions to problems
that are difficult to solve with static algorithms.
● Natural Modularity and Ease of Maintenance: While OOP provides modularity through
classes and inheritance, these structures can become complex and brittle in large
systems. AOP offers a more natural and flexible modularity by treating each agent as a
self-contained unit with its own goals, beliefs, and behaviors.69 Adding a new capability
to the system can be as simple as adding a new specialized agent, rather than changing
existing code. This significantly facilitates the maintenance, expansion, and evolution of
the system. With these qualities, AOP stands out as the most natural paradigm for
bringing concepts inherent to artificial intelligence, such as autonomy, goal-orientation,
and adaptation, into the programming world.

How is Chain-of-Thought Advanced?

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is a powerful prompting technique used to enhance the reasoning
abilities of LLMs when solving complex problems. However, multi-agent frameworks like
AutoGen fundamentally transform this concept, taking it to the next level.
● Traditional CoT: Internal Monologue: Standard CoT is an internal monologue process
where a single LLM creates a step-by-step logic chain to solve a problem.70 The model
starts with a phrase like "Let's think step by step..." and transcribes its own thought
process into text, eventually arriving at a conclusion. This process is closed; meaning a
mistake in the logic chain cannot be easily detected without an external verification
mechanism and can lead to the entire result being wrong.71
● AutoGen's Approach: Externalized Dialogue: AutoGen transforms this internal and
closed reasoning process into an externalized, transparent, and interactive dialogue
among specialized agents, each with a different cognitive role.72 This can also be
conceptualized as a "Social Chain-of-Thought."
1. A PlannerAgent takes the first step of the CoT by breaking the task into steps.
However, this "thought" does not remain inside the model; it becomes an explicit
message sent to the next agent.
2. A CoderAgent or SearchAgent takes a step from this plan and implements it. The
result of this action is also an explicit message.
3. A CriticAgent receives this result and evaluates the accuracy or efficiency of the
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message.60
● Robustness and Verifiability: This externalization makes the reasoning process radically
more robust and verifiable. Each "thought" step is now a concrete artifact that can be
seen, examined, and even corrected by a human in the conversation history. While it is
difficult for a single LLM to notice its own logic error, in a multi-agent system, a "critic"
agent can easily catch and correct a mistake made by another agent.72 This prevents
cascading errors and produces more reliable results.

How Does It Affect Solution Quality?

AutoGen's multi-agent architecture has the potential to improve the quality of generated
solutions through various mechanisms.
● Task Decomposition through Specialization: When a complex problem is handled by a
single generalist LLM, the model is expected to be an expert in all different aspects
(coding, data analysis, research, copywriting, etc.) simultaneously. AutoGen solves this
problem by dividing it among agents, each specialized in its own field.16 A
CoderAgent focuses on best coding practices, while a DataAnalystAgent focuses on
statistical accuracy. This division of labor ensures that each sub-task is completed with
higher quality, thereby increasing the overall quality of the final solution.
● Iterative Feedback and Improvement Cycles: AutoGen facilitates iterative
improvement, a human-like way of working. Patterns known as "generator-critic" or
"evaluator-optimizer" are particularly effective in improving solution quality.59 In this
pattern, one agent (the generator) creates a draft solution, and another agent (the
critic) evaluates this draft and provides feedback. The generator agent then improves its
solution based on this feedback. This cycle continues until a satisfactory quality level is
reached. This is a much more robust approach that improves quality through
continuous improvement, rather than expecting a perfect result in a single attempt.
● Robust Evaluation and Benchmarking: Another way to improve the quality of a solution
is to measure it objectively. The AutoGenBench tool in the AutoGen ecosystem is
designed for this purpose.48
AutoGenBench allows for the rigorous evaluation of created agent workflows against
established and standardized benchmark sets like HumanEval. This tool is based on
three core principles: (1) Repetition: Running tests multiple times to measure
performance variability arising from the stochastic nature of LLMs. (2) Isolation:
Running each test in its own Docker container to ensure it is not affected by the side
effects of previous tests (e.g., an installed library). (3) Instrumentation: Recording all
interactions and telemetry data for debugging and in-depth analysis beyond
performance metrics.74 This systematic evaluation allows for the identification of
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Advantages and Disadvantages

Like any powerful technology, AutoGen comes with a set of advantages and disadvantages.
Understanding this balance is critical for making the right decisions about when and how to
use the framework.

Table 4.4: AutoGen Framework: Strengths and Limitations

Category Strengths Limitations

Flexibility and Customization Highly extensible agents, various Requires significant coding
conversation patterns, strong expertise; not a low-code/no-
human-in-the-loop support.13 code solution (except for
Studio).55

Performance and Quality Potential for superior results in Can be inconsistent in multi-hop
complex tasks through questions; feedback loops may
specialization and iteration.9 not always work reliably.57

Cost and Efficiency Optimizes LLM performance by Can lead to very high token usage
using the right agent for the right and API costs compared to single-
task.8 agent calls.57

Development and Debugging AutoGen Studio for rapid Debugging dynamic,

prototyping; AutoGenBench for asynchronous multi-agent
robust evaluation.13 interactions can be very
challenging.7

Ecosystem and Integration Strong support from Microsoft Compatibility with some open-
Research, growing community, source models can be challenging
planned convergence with due to different prompt
Semantic Kernel.8 formats.57

The Point Reachable Within 5 Years

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and frameworks like AutoGen are on the verge of the next major
breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. The key developments expected in this
area over the next five years are:
● Hyper-Autonomous Enterprise Systems: One of the strongest expectations for 2025
and beyond is that MAS will manage enterprise processes end-to-end autonomously.
These systems will not only automate specific tasks but will also undertake complex,
holistic business functions such as conducting market research, designing and executing
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marketing campaigns, optimizing the supply chain, and even simulating strategic
product launches.78 Forecasts from analyst firms like Gartner predict that by 2028, at
least 15% of daily business decisions will be made autonomously by agentic AI.80
● Advanced Collaboration and "Swarm Intelligence": Collaboration between agents will
become much more sophisticated than simple task handoffs. Agents will exhibit
"swarm"-like behaviors, mimicking natural systems like ant colonies or beehives. This
means agents will not just transfer information but will build on each other's outputs to
achieve a collective goal, resulting in globally intelligent behavior emerging from local
interactions.79
● The Rise and Integration of Personal Agents (BYOAI): Individuals are expected to have
their own autonomous agents, trained with their personal data and preferences,
managing their daily lives and personal productivity. Similar to the "Bring Your Own
Device" (BYOD) trend, a "Bring Your Own AI Agent" (BYOAI) trend will emerge. This will
create new integration challenges and opportunities, requiring corporate systems to
interact and collaborate securely and efficiently with employees' personal agents.79
● Proactive and Emotionally Intelligent Agents: Agents will evolve from reactive
assistants to digital partners that anticipate users' needs, proactively offer solutions,
and take action.81 Furthermore, with the development of multimodal capabilities
(understanding text, voice, images) and emotional intelligence, agents will be able to
establish more empathetic and natural human-computer interactions, making them
more effective in areas like customer service, education, and even therapy.81
● Self-Evolving Architectures: Frameworks like AutoGen will lay the foundation for
systems where agents not only solve tasks but also autonomously optimize their own
performance and collaboration strategies over time. Agents will be able to learn which
collaboration pattern is most effective for which task type and dynamically reconfigure
their own architectures and roles. This will enable a step towards self-improving and
evolving AI systems.

Protection from Collective Error

One of the greatest promises of multi-agent systems is to create a collective intelligence
superior to that of a single agent by bringing together different specializations. However, this
also brings one of its biggest risks: collective reasoning errors. Systemic dysfunctions
observed in human groups, such as "groupthink," "information-sharing bias," and "over-
coordination," can also emerge in groups of AI agents.82 A group of agents, instead of
integrating different perspectives, can unanimously reinforce a flawed idea, leading to
disastrous consequences. Developing strategies at both the architectural and interaction
pattern levels to protect against such collective errors is critically important.
● Architectural and Structural Solutions:
○ Redundancy and Fault Tolerance: The system design should include mechanisms to
prevent the failure of a single agent or subsystem from crashing the entire system.
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the results can help detect errors. Decentralized control mechanisms limit the
spread of errors.73
○ Systematic Failure Taxonomy: Studies like MASFT (Multi-Agent System Failure
Taxonomy) classify typical failure types in multi-agent systems (e.g., disobeying task
specifications, information withholding, premature termination, incorrect
verification).83 Such taxonomies allow developers to proactively identify potential
weaknesses and design defense mechanisms against them (e.g., better role
definitions, more robust termination conditions).
● Interaction Pattern and Cognitive Solutions:
○ Fostering Cognitive Diversity: It is important to design the agent group to
deliberately have different perspectives, roles, and even "personalities." For
example, a CriticAgent or an agent playing the "devil's advocate" role can be tasked
with questioning the group's assumptions and bringing up alternative hypotheses.
Research shows that agents tuned to be overly cooperative tend to avoid sharing
important information for the sake of reaching an agreement. In contrast, agents
guided by prompts that encourage contradiction can increase the likelihood of the
group reaching the correct solution by presenting more diverse perspectives,
although this may make it harder for the group to converge on a conclusion.82
○ Structured Debate and Cross-Examination: Instead of letting agents chat freely,
interaction patterns like structured debate or cross-examination can be
implemented. When one agent makes a claim, another agent can be required to
question the evidence for this claim or try to find its weak points.
○ Human-in-the-Loop: In high-risk decisions, involving a human expert in the loop for
final approval or verification of critical intermediate steps is one of the strongest
safeguards against collective errors.28 Even if agents reach a consensus, having this
consensus reviewed by a human can prevent obvious overlooked mistakes.

Is Responding with Multiple Agents an Unnecessary Cost?

The use of multi-agent systems inevitably requires more computational resources and API
costs compared to a single LLM call. This raises the question, "Is using multiple agents an
unnecessary cost that isn't worth the complexity of the task?" The answer is not a simple yes
or no, but a trade-off that requires careful cost-benefit analysis.
● Scenarios Where the Cost is Unnecessary: If the task is simple, single-step, and well-
defined (e.g., a question like "What is the capital of France?"), using multiple agents is
clearly an unnecessary cost.76 A single LLM call can solve such a task efficiently and
accurately. The additional complexity and cost of setting up a multi-agent architecture
would outweigh the benefits.
● Scenarios Where the Cost is Justified: The increased cost can be justified by the
benefits obtained in the following situations:
1. Task Complexity and Specialization: If the task requires multiple different areas of
expertise (e.g., analyzing a company's financial data, writing a Python script based

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on this analysis, and visualizing the results in a presentation), it is difficult for a

single generalist agent to succeed in all these areas. Dividing the task among
specialized agents (Data Analyst, Coder, Presentation Preparer) ensures that each
step is done with higher quality, increasing the value of the final solution.77
2. Robustness and Iterative Improvement: If the task has a structure that is difficult
to get right in one go and requires iterative improvement (e.g., designing a new
software module), setting up a "generator-critic" loop can produce a much more
valuable result than a flawed solution that would emerge from the first attempt.
This additional cost may be lower than the cost of debugging and rework that
would later be done with human intervention.
3. Overcoming Token and Reasoning Limits: An analysis by Anthropic suggests that
the fundamental success of multi-agent systems is that they allow for "spending
enough tokens" to solve the problem.77 The context window of a single LLM call or
the complexity limit of a single reasoning chain may be insufficient to solve a
challenging problem. By breaking the task into sub-tasks, each agent works within
its own smaller context window and they can collectively solve a larger problem. In
this case, the increased token usage is not a waste, but a necessary investment for
solving the problem.

In conclusion, using multiple agents is a cost-benefit decision. If the value, complexity, and
required solution quality of the task justify the increased computational cost, the multi-
agent approach is highly logical. For simple tasks, single-agent solutions will continue to be
more efficient.

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4.5.Practical Development with AutoGen (Examples)

This section provides concrete development examples and conceptual explanations for
both.NET and Python environments, translating the theoretical infrastructure of the
AutoGen framework into practice. A range of practical topics will be covered, from basic
agent construction to complex inter-agent communication patterns, external tool usage, and
integration with popular libraries.

Basic Agent Construction (.NET)

Creating a basic agent in AutoGen.NET typically starts with instantiating one of the pre-
configured agent classes and configuring the communication channels.
● Agent Creation: The simplest starting point is to use a class optimized for a specific LLM
provider, such as OpenAIChatAgent, or the more general-purpose ConversableAgent.85
For example, to create an
OpenAIChatAgent, an OpenAIClient object and a model ID are needed.
● Message Connectors (RegisterMessageConnector): AutoGen.NET uses a mechanism
called "connectors" to manage the incompatibility between the message formats
expected by different agents and APIs. For example, an agent working with the generic
IMessage interface must send a message in the specific ChatMessageRequest format
expected by the OpenAI API. The RegisterMessageConnector() extension method
registers a middleware to the agent that automatically performs such conversions. This
saves the developer the trouble of manual type conversion and makes inter-agent
communication seamless.36
● Message Printing (RegisterPrintMessage): Monitoring the dialogue flow between
agents is critical during the development and debugging process. The
RegisterPrintMessage() extension method is another useful middleware that prints
every message received and sent by the agent to the console in a readable format. This
allows for real-time viewing of the conversation's stage and the responses agents are
generating.85

Communication with GenerateReplyAsync & SendAsync Methods (.NET)

In AutoGen.NET, there are essentially two different levels of methods for communicating
with an agent: the low-level GenerateReplyAsync and the high-level SendAsync.
● GenerateReplyAsync: This is an agent's basic reply generation method. It takes a
message history (IEnumerable<IMessage>) as a parameter and produces a single reply
message (Task<IMessage>).85 This method provides full control over the reply
generation process. However, calling this method represents a single reply turn; it does
not initiate an automatic conversation loop between agents. Triggering the next step is
the developer's responsibility.
● SendAsync: This is a higher-level and easier-to-use extension method built on top of
GenerateReplyAsync.36 It usually takes a simpler input, like a single text string (

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agent.SendAsync("Hello")), and converts it to an appropriate TextMessage before

calling GenerateReplyAsync. More importantly, methods like SendAsync or
InitiateChatAsync can trigger a predefined conversation loop between two agents (e.g.,
mutual responding that continues until a termination condition is met).36

Key Difference: GenerateReplyAsync offers a direct and manual access point to an agent's
reply generation logic, while SendAsync is a shortcut that simplifies common use cases and
manages automatic conversation flows.85

C#

// Sample Code (.NET)

// Manual control with GenerateReplyAsync

var messageList = new List<IMessage> { new TextMessage(Role.User, "Hello") };
IMessage reply = await agent.GenerateReplyAsync(messageList);
Console.WriteLine(reply.GetContent());

// Simpler and potentially automatic flow with SendAsync

IMessage replyFromSend = await agent.SendAsync("Hello again");
Console.WriteLine(replyFromSend.GetContent());

Streaming Chat: Stream-Based Responses

Stream-based chat is a feature that significantly improves the user experience. It allows for
receiving the response word-by-word or token-by-token in real-time, instead of waiting for
the agent to generate the full response.
● Implementation in Python: When creating an AssistantAgent, the
model_client_stream=True parameter is set. This enables the model client to send
responses as a stream. To interact with the agent, asynchronous methods like
agent.run_stream(task="...") or the lower-level agent.on_messages_stream(...) are
used. These methods return an async iterator that yields a value each time a new
message part arrives.89
● Implementation in.NET: For an agent to offer streaming support, it must implement the
IStreamingAgent interface. This interface defines the GenerateStreamingReplyAsync
method. This method returns an IAsyncEnumerable<IMessage>. The developer can
consume this stream using an await foreach loop. Messages that arrive during the
stream are usually partial update types like TextMessageUpdate or
ToolCallMessageUpdate. The developer can combine these updates to display them
instantly in the user interface.85

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Middlewares: Process Control with Middleware (.NET)

One of the most powerful and fundamental design patterns in AutoGen.NET is the
Middleware structure. This structure allows for extending an agent's behavior in a modular
and composable way without changing its base code.
● Concept: A middleware is a logic layer that "intercepts" messages entering or leaving an
agent's reply generation pipeline (GenerateReplyAsync call).92 When a request reaches
an agent, it first passes through the middleware chain. Each middleware can inspect the
request, modify it, perform additional operations (e.g., write a log), short-circuit the
process and return a response directly, or pass the request to the next middleware in
the chain or finally to the agent itself.92
● Use Cases: Almost all advanced features in AutoGen.NET are implemented as
middleware. These include FunctionCallMiddleware (handles function calls),
HumanInputMiddleware (requests human input), PrintMessageMiddleware (prints
messages to the console), and various message connectors.66
● Implementation: There are two ways to add middleware to an agent:
1. Wrapping an existing agent in a MiddlewareAgent using new
MiddlewareAgent(innerAgent) and then adding middlewares with the
.Use(middleware) method.93
2. More commonly, registering middleware directly to an agent using extension
methods like .RegisterMiddleware(middleware). This method automatically wraps
the agent in a MiddlewareAgent and adds the new middleware.92 This design
creates a highly modular and flexible architecture where capabilities are added to
agents layer by layer.

Function Call (.NET Example)

Function calling in.NET is a perfect example that demonstrates the power of the middleware
pattern.
1. Function Definition: A C# method is marked with the [Function] attribute. When the
AutoGen.SourceGenerator package is added to the project, the compiler sees this
attribute and automatically creates a FunctionContract (a JSON schema-like definition
containing the function's name, description, and parameters) and a Wrapper (a
standard wrapper for calling this method) for this method.63
2. Middleware Configuration: A FunctionCallMiddleware object is created. This object is
configured with two main pieces of information: (1) a list of function definitions to be
sent to the LLM (IEnumerable<FunctionContract>) and (2) a dictionary that maps these
function names to the actual C# method implementations (IDictionary<string,
Func<string, Task<string>>> functionMap).65
3. Registering to Agent: The created FunctionCallMiddleware is registered to an LLM-
powered agent using the .RegisterMiddleware() method.
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4. Workflow: When a user sends a request like "What is the weather in Seattle?", the LLM
understands this request and decides that it needs to call the WeatherReport function.
The LLM produces a ToolCallMessage. This message is caught by the
FunctionCallMiddleware as it passes through the agent's reply pipeline. The middleware
looks up the function name from the message in its functionMap, executes the
corresponding C# method, gets the result, and feeds this result back to the agent as a
ToolCallResultMessage for the next step of the conversation.65

Making Multiple Agents Converse Among Themselves

The core promise of AutoGen, multi-agent collaboration, is brought to life through the
GroupChat and GroupChatManager components.
● Group Creation: A GroupChat object is created with parameters such as a list of agents
to participate in the chat (agents), the maximum number of rounds (max_round), and
the speaker selection method (speaker_selection_method).95
● Speaker Selection: The speaker_selection_method parameter determines the
conversation flow.
○ "round_robin": Agents speak in the order they are in the list.64
○ "random": A random agent is selected in each round.25
○ "auto": The most advanced method. The GroupChatManager sends the
conversation history and the agents' roles (usually specified in the description field)
to an LLM and asks it to select the most suitable agent for the next step.24
● Conditional Transitions (FSM): For more deterministic and controllable workflows, the
transitions between agents can be constrained like a Finite State Machine (FSM). This is
done by passing a dictionary to the allowed_or_disallowed_speaker_transitions
parameter when creating the GroupChat. This dictionary is in the format {SourceAgent:}
and specifies that after a source agent speaks, only the target agents in the list can take
the floor.97 This makes it possible to define strict workflow rules, such as only an
"Engineer" can speak after a "Planner." In.NET, such a structure can be achieved by
creating a
Graph object with Transition.Create(from, to) methods and providing this Graph to the
GroupChat.

Quick Start with Python Agents (LangChain Integration)

AutoGen is not a closed ecosystem; it has strong integration capabilities with other popular
libraries like LangChain and LangGraph. This integration allows for combining the best
aspects of both worlds.
● Using LangChain as a Tool: AutoGen agents can use LangChain's rich set of tools (e.g.,
Google Search with SerpAPI, database querying with SQLDatabaseChain). For this, a
LangChain tool is wrapped as a simple Python function. This wrapper function is
registered as a tool to AutoGen's UserProxyAgent. When the AssistantAgent needs to
perform a search or query a database, it suggests calling this wrapper function. The

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UserProxyAgent receives this call and runs the LangChain tool in the background to get
the result.98
● Orchestration with LangGraph: This is a more advanced integration pattern that
combines structured workflows with dynamic agent conversations.
1. Structure (LangGraph): LangGraph is used to create a stateful graph that defines
the main steps of a task. For example, steps like "Research -> Write -> Review" are
defined as nodes of the graph. LangGraph manages the transition between these
steps and the overall state.
2. Action (AutoGen): Each node in the graph can trigger the operation of an AutoGen
agent team. For example, when the "Research" node is reached, LangGraph
delegates the task to an AutoGen group consisting of a SearchAgent and a
PlannerAgent.
3. Integration: A function within the LangGraph node calls AutoGen's initiate_chat
method. The current state of LangGraph (conversation history) is passed as context
to the AutoGen agents. After the AutoGen team completes its internal dialogues
and reaches a conclusion, this result is returned to LangGraph, and the graph's state
is updated. The process moves to the next node.99

This pattern makes it possible to create extremely powerful and modular systems
by combining LangGraph's state management, persistence, and cyclic capabilities
with AutoGen's flexible and intelligent multi-agent problem-solving abilities.

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5. Self-Learning and Autonomous Development of AI Agents

Introduction: The Paradigm Shift Towards Self-Learning Agents
Developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are witnessing a paradigm shift that is
transforming systems from static, pre-trained tools into dynamic and adaptive entities that
autonomously improve their capabilities through interaction with their environment.1 At the
heart of this evolution lies

self-learning, defined as the ability of an agent to enhance its performance purely from its
own experiences, without direct external supervision or human-curated datasets.1 This
capability allows agents to overcome the "data wall" that constrains traditional machine
learning models and to enter a continuous cycle of improvement.4 Self-learning enables an
AI system to autonomously correct its errors, discover new strategies, and become more
capable over time, and is seen as a fundamental step on the path to artificial general
intelligence (AGI).1

This unit provides an in-depth examination of four fundamental mechanisms that enable the
autonomous development of AI agents. These mechanisms are not isolated techniques but
rather complementary and often interconnected pillars for creating the more general and
capable agents of the future.5 First, we will discuss

Self-Play, where agents gain strategic mastery by competing against their own copies.
Second, we will examine Self-Improvement architectures, particularly innovative
frameworks like SEAL and the Darwin Gödel Machine (DGM), where agents modify not just
their behaviors but also their own internal structures (parameters or code). Third, we will
discuss Curriculum Learning and its automated forms, which structure the learning process
from easy to difficult to increase efficiency and generalization. Finally, we will analyze
Intrinsic Motivation mechanisms, born from curiosity and the pursuit of novelty, which
enable agents to explore, especially in environments with sparse external rewards. The table
below presents a comparative analysis of the key features of these four paradigms.

Table 1: Comparative Analysis of Self-Learning Paradigms

Paradigm Core Mechanism Primary Goal Key Challenge Example

System/Algorithm

Self-Play Competition Finding Non-stationarity, AlphaZero,

against self optimal/unexploit strategic cycles DeepNash
able strategy

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Self-Improvement Modifying own Continuous Catastrophic SEAL, Darwin

parameters/code adaptation and forgetting, value Gödel Machine
capability alignment
expansion

Curriculum Easy-to-hard task Increasing Optimal Teacher-Student

Learning sequencing learning efficiency curriculum design ACL
and generalization

Intrinsic Curiosity/novelty- Encouraging Distractions (e.g., ICM, RND

Motivation based reward exploration in noisy-TV), reward
generation sparse-reward hacking
environments

These four pillars provide a comprehensive framework for how autonomous agents can
learn, adapt, and ultimately evolve, aiming to illuminate the current state and future
research directions in this field.

5.1. Self-Play: Strategy Mastery Through Competitive Self-Discovery

Self-play is a powerful reinforcement learning (RL) paradigm where an AI agent develops its
capabilities entirely through self-competition, without the need for an external opponent or
a human-generated dataset. This approach creates a continuously more challenging and
meaningful learning environment by having the agent play against its own past versions or
copies.

5.1.1. Theoretical Foundations: Game Theory and Multi-Agent Reinforcement

Learning
In its most basic definition, self-play is an RL technique where an agent generates experience
by playing against its own copies or past versions.7 This process essentially creates a multi-
agent reinforcement learning (MARL) environment. One of the fundamental challenges in
MARL is the

non-stationarity problem: an agent's learning environment is not fixed because the policies
of other agents are constantly changing.7 Self-play significantly mitigates this issue by placing
the opponent's (i.e., the agent's own) evolution on a controllable trajectory, leading to a
more stable learning process.10

The theoretical roots of this approach lie in game theory. Particularly in two-player zero-sum
games, the self-play process aims to converge to a Nash Equilibrium.11 A Nash Equilibrium is
a state where no player can achieve a better outcome by unilaterally changing their strategy
while the other player's strategy remains fixed.13 A strategy that reaches this equilibrium
becomes, by definition, "unexploitable" because no move the opponent can make can lower
the agent's expected outcome.14

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In practice, the effectiveness of self-play largely depends on the opponent-selection

strategy. The simplest methods involve the learning agent always playing against its most
recent ("latest") or strongest-to-date ("best") version. However, these intuitive approaches
can lead to convergence to suboptimal strategies or learning cycles, especially in complex
games. More advanced algorithmic frameworks use techniques derived from perturbation-
based saddle-point optimization to solve this problem. For example, methods like Fictitious
Self-Play (FSP) train multiple agents simultaneously, with each agent learning the best
response to the average strategy of the others, providing a more efficient and guaranteed
convergence to a Nash Equilibrium.11

5.1.2. The Pinnacle in Perfect Information Games: The AlphaZero Paradigm

The most striking example demonstrating the power of self-play is the AlphaZero system,
developed by DeepMind. AlphaZero achieved superhuman performance in complex strategy
games like chess, shogi, and Go, starting from tabula rasa (a blank slate) without any human
game data or domain knowledge.15 This achievement proved that AI could transcend the
limits of human knowledge.

AlphaZero's architecture is based on an elegant integration of two core components: a

powerful search algorithm called Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and a deep neural
network.15 These two components are combined within a policy iteration framework:
1. Search (MCTS): During each move, MCTS simulates thousands of possible game
scenarios starting from the current game state. This search is used to discover the most
promising move sequences.
2. Guidance (Neural Network): The neural network guides this search process in two
ways. First, it produces a policy output (p) that predicts which moves are more likely in
a given game state. Second, it produces a value output (v) that estimates the
probability of winning from the current state. MCTS favors paths with higher policy
probability and value as it expands the search tree.
3. Learning (RL): At the end of the game, the actual outcome (+1 for a win, -1 for a loss) is
determined. Each state recorded during the game, along with the improved move
probabilities from MCTS and the final game outcome, is used as a training example to
train the neural network. As the agent plays millions of self-play games, the neural
network's policy and value predictions become increasingly accurate, which in turn
leads to a more powerful MCTS search.15

This closed loop allowed AlphaZero to discover entirely new and sometimes counter-
intuitive, yet highly effective, playing styles, without being limited by known human
strategies.15

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5.1.3. Expansion into Imperfect Information: DeepNash and Cicero

The success of self-play is not limited to perfect information games. Researchers have
successfully adapted this paradigm to more complex and realistic problems where players do
not have full information about the environment.

DeepNash (Stratego): The classic board game Stratego is an imperfect information game
because the identity of the opponent's pieces is hidden. This makes traditional methods like
MCTS ineffective, as it cannot efficiently search a game tree containing all possible moves.14
DeepMind's DeepNash agent overcomes this challenge by using an innovative algorithm
called

Regularised Nash Dynamics (R-NaD), which combines model-free deep RL with game
theory.19 R-NaD directs the agents to converge directly to a Nash Equilibrium. This not only
enables DeepNash to develop an unexploitable playing style but also allows it to learn to
play unpredictably to prevent an opponent from identifying a pattern, to gather information
by sacrificing valuable pieces, and even to

bluff.14

Cicero (Diplomacy): Developed by Meta AI, Cicero has achieved human-level performance in
the seven-player game of Diplomacy, which involves both competition and cooperation, as
well as natural language-based negotiation, alliance-building, and betrayal.22 Cicero's success
is based on a hybrid architecture. On one side of the architecture is a

strategic reasoning engine trained via self-play on dialogue-free game data. This engine
models the intentions and likely moves of other players.24 On the other side is a

controllable large language model (LLM) trained on a vast database of human dialogue. The
plans generated by the strategic engine are used as "intents" to guide the LLM. This allows
Cicero to engage in both honest and persuasive dialogues to achieve its strategic goals.26 A
key point is that Cicero's RL training includes a term that penalizes it for deviating too far
from human behavior. This forces the agent to find not just the best move, but a cooperative
move that is consistent with the norms and expectations of potential human allies.25

These examples show that self-play has evolved from a singular solution into a modular
approach adapted to the nature of the problem (perfect/imperfect information,
competition/cooperation). As the complexity of the problem increases, "pure" self-play is
evolving by being integrated with more abstract frameworks like game theory or other AI
capabilities like language modeling.

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5.2. Self-Improving Systems: New Architectures for Agent Evolution

One of the most ambitious goals of self-learning is to create agents that can autonomously
improve not only their behaviors but also their own internal structures and algorithms. This
vision of "self-improvement" represents a leap from static models to systems that
continuously evolve and expand their capabilities. Two pioneering approaches in this area
are SEAL, which provides adaptation at the parameter level, and the Darwin Gödel Machine,
which evolves at the code level.

5.2.1. SEAL: Language Models That Update Their Weights with Self-Editing
Traditional large language models (LLMs) are generally static; that is, once trained, they
cannot change their underlying parameters (weights) in response to new information or
tasks. SEAL (Self-Adapting LLMs) is a framework developed to overcome this limitation,
allowing LLMs to autonomously adapt their own weights.28

The core mechanism of SEAL is based on a nested dual-loop structure 4:

1. Inner Loop (Parameter Update): When the agent encounters a new task or
information, it generates a "self-edit" instruction on how to adapt to this situation. This
instruction is a text generated by the model itself and can include directives such as
creating synthetic training data, setting optimization hyperparameters like the learning
rate, or calling data augmentation tools. This generated instruction is then used to
permanently update the model's own weights through supervised finetuning (SFT).30
This ensures that the learned information is integrated into the model's structure rather
than remaining in a temporary context window.
2. Outer Loop (Policy Learning): Which self-editing instructions are useful is learned
through a reinforcement learning (RL) loop. After applying a self-edit, the model
evaluates its performance on the target task. If the performance has improved, the
behavior (policy) that produced this self-edit is reinforced with a positive reward signal.
This reward increases the likelihood that the agent will produce more effective self-
edits in the future. Thus, the agent not only learns a task but also learns "how to learn
better."4

5.2.2. Overcoming Data Dependency: ARC-AGI Success and Potential

Applications
One of the most significant contributions of the SEAL framework is its potential to break the
chronic dependency of AI systems on static and pre-prepared datasets. By generating its
own synthetic data, the model overcomes this "data wall" and enters a continuous and
uninterrupted learning cycle, even without receiving new data from the outside.4 This
capability is crucial for systems that need to operate autonomously for extended periods.

This potential of SEAL has been demonstrated on the ARC-AGI (Abstraction and Reasoning
Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence), a challenging reasoning test.31 ARC-AGI is
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designed to measure fluid intelligence and the ability to generalize abstract patterns from a
few examples, and it is extremely difficult for standard LLMs.31 In experiments, it was
reported that on a special subset of ARC where standard approaches showed 0% success,
SEAL achieved a 72.5% success rate through its self-generated data augmentations and
training strategies.4 This shows that SEAL not only memorizes information but also learns
how to generalize to new reasoning tasks.

The potential applications of this approach are quite broad. Autonomous robots that need to
continuously adapt to changing environmental conditions or personalized education systems
that dynamically update their content and difficulty based on each student's individual
progress could greatly benefit from the SEAL methodology.34

However, SEAL also has its limitations. In current implementations, it is acknowledged that
repeated parameter updates are prone to the catastrophic forgetting problem, where the
model's performance declines as it overwrites previously learned information.4 Solving this
problem is an important area for future research.

5.2.3. Towards Open-Ended Evolution: The Darwin Gödel Machine

While SEAL offers adaptation at the parameter level, the Darwin Gödel Machine (DGM)
presents a more radical and powerful vision of self-improvement, where an agent iteratively
modifies not just its parameters, but its own source code.35 This approach is inspired by the
theoretical Gödel Machine concept (the requirement to mathematically prove that every
change is beneficial) and Darwinian evolution.

The working principle of DGM includes the following steps:

1. Mutation: The system samples one of the existing coding agents and uses a foundation
model to propose a new and "interesting" change (mutation) in that agent's code.
2. Validation: Each new code change is empirically validated on standard coding
benchmarks like SWE-bench. It is tested whether the change improves performance.
3. Archiving and Evolution: Successful code versions that improve performance are stored
in an "archive" to serve as a basis for future mutations. This process enhances not only
the performance on coding tasks but also the agent's self-improvement capabilities
(e.g., by developing better code editing tools or peer-review mechanisms).35

It has been reported that DGM increased performance on SWE-bench from 20% to 50%. This
is a significant step towards an open-ended and potentially infinite path of innovation,
where a system can autonomously improve its own fundamental algorithms and
capabilities.35

These two approaches represent different levels of self-improvement. SEAL learns to be

better within an existing architecture, while DGM learns to discover new architectures and
algorithms. This is similar to the fundamental difference between learning to solve a

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problem and learning to invent the method for solving it. For truly autonomous and lifelong
learning agents, integrating such self-improvement mechanisms with continual learning
techniques that prevent catastrophic forgetting (e.g., PNN or EWC) is one of the most
important future steps in this field.1

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5.3. Curriculum Learning: Structuring the Path to Mastery

Attempting to have an agent learn a complex task directly is often an inefficient and
unsuccessful process. Curriculum Learning (CL) offers an elegant solution to this problem,
inspired by a fundamental principle in human and animal education: start learning with
simple tasks and gradually increase the difficulty.

5.3.1. The Principle of Staged Learning and Its Theoretical Advantages

Curriculum learning is a training strategy where training data or tasks are presented to an
agent with progressively increasing levels of difficulty.36 Instead of exposing the agent to the
full complexity of the problem from the outset, CL divides the learning process into
manageable stages. This approach has several theoretical advantages:
● Increased Sample Efficiency: In traditional RL, agents spend a lot of time and
computational resources exploring meaningless actions, especially in complex
environments, until they find a reward signal. A curriculum reduces this waste by
focusing the initial stages of the agent's training on simple scenarios where rewards are
more easily obtained.38
● Better Convergence and Generalization: The agent learns fundamental principles and
skills from easy tasks. This foundational knowledge is then transferred to more difficult
tasks, enabling the agent to generalize better. This staged approach reduces the risk of
the agent getting stuck in poor local optima on complex tasks and provides a more
stable learning trajectory.38
● Mitigation of the Exploration Problem: Especially in sparse reward environments
where reward signals are very rare, it is almost impossible for an agent to discover
meaningful states or rewards by chance. A curriculum acts as a scaffold in these
situations, guiding the agent's exploration towards meaningful intermediate goals and
motivating the learning process.38

5.3.2. Methods: From Manual Design to Automatic Curriculum Learning

The most critical aspect of designing a curriculum is determining the difficulty order of the
tasks. There are two main approaches in the literature for this purpose:
● Manual Curriculum: In this approach, a domain expert manually designs the difficulty
order of tasks or data. For example, when teaching an autonomous vehicle to drive
using reinforcement learning, a curriculum designed by an expert might include the
following steps: 1) Learning to control the vehicle on a straight, empty road. 2) Learning
to avoid collisions by adding a few vehicles to the scenario. 3) Scenarios with added
pedestrians. 4) More complex situations like intersections and, finally, adverse weather
conditions.40 This method can be intuitive and effective but is dependent on expert
knowledge, difficult to scale, and risks incorporating the expert's biases into the
system.39
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autonomously and dynamically adjusting the task difficulty based on the agent's
performance.42 This allows for the creation of more scalable and objective curricula.
Two popular ACL paradigms are:
○ Teacher-Student Framework: In this paradigm, there are two separate models. The
"student" agent tries to learn the main task, while a "teacher" algorithm observes
the student's learning process. The teacher selects and presents tasks to the
student that will maximize the student's learning progress.43 Learning progress is
typically measured by metrics such as the instantaneous slope of the learning curve
(i.e., the tasks the agent is learning the fastest) or prediction errors. This dynamic
ensures that the teacher feeds the student tasks that are neither so easy as to be
boring nor so difficult as to cause them to give up, thus optimizing the learning
speed.44 This turns the learning problem into a meta-learning problem; the system
learns not only the task but also how to learn the task most efficiently.
○ Self-Paced Learning: In this approach, there is no separate teacher. The model itself
chooses which training examples or tasks to tackle based on its current
competence. It usually starts with examples that the model finds easier (e.g., those
that produce a lower loss value during training) and gradually moves on to more
difficult ones as its performance improves.37

5.3.3. Application Areas and Case Studies

Curriculum learning has achieved concrete successes in various AI fields:
● Robotic Manipulation: A complex assembly or "pick and place" task can be broken
down into manageable sub-tasks with curriculum learning. For example, a robot arm
can first learn to reach for an object in a fixed position, then to grasp it, then to grasp it
with randomized object positions, and finally to navigate around obstacles to place the
object in a target location.45 New approaches like CurricuLLM autonomously generate
such sub-task curricula using the reasoning capabilities of LLMs.46
● Game AI: Agents in video games often start at simpler levels or with fewer and weaker
enemies to learn the basic game mechanics. As the agent succeeds, the difficulty of the
level is increased, enabling them to develop more complex strategies.36
● Natural Language Processing (NLP): The curriculum approach is also used in training
language models. Models first learn basic grammar and syntax rules with simple and
short sentences. Then, they are moved on to longer, more complex texts containing
abstract concepts to grasp deeper semantic structures and nuances.48

Interestingly, other self-learning paradigms like self-play and intrinsic motivation inherently
create implicit or emergent curricula. In self-play, the difficulty naturally increases as the
agent plays against better versions of itself.9 An agent driven by intrinsic motivation, after
learning simple and predictable situations, gets "bored" and naturally turns to exploring
more complex, new situations. This shows that ACL may not always require a separate
"teacher" module, and that self-organizing learning processes can also create effective
curricula.
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5.4. Intrinsic Motivation: The Birth of Curiosity and Exploration

For AI agents to learn autonomously, especially in situations where there is no clear external
guidance, they need an internal driving force that allows them to set and pursue their own
goals. Intrinsic motivation provides this driving force, giving agents a human-like sense of
curiosity and exploration.

5.4.1. Conceptual Framework: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards

In reinforcement learning, there are two types of reward signals that shape an agent's
behavior:
● Extrinsic Rewards: These rewards are provided by the environment and usually
represent the ultimate goal of the task. For example, points earned in a game, reaching
the exit of a maze, or arriving at a destination are extrinsic rewards.50
● Intrinsic Rewards: These rewards are self-generated by the agent. Independent of the
external task, they encourage the agent to explore new situations, learn new skills, or
reduce uncertainty about its environment. Concepts like curiosity, surprise, or the
pursuit of novelty form the basis of intrinsic rewards.50

The importance of intrinsic motivation becomes particularly evident in the sparse reward
problem. In many realistic scenarios (e.g., solving a complex puzzle or a robot completing a
long assembly task), a positive extrinsic reward signal is obtained very rarely or only at the
very end of the task. In such "reward deserts," an agent focused solely on the extrinsic
reward performs random actions until it receives meaningful feedback, which makes
learning extremely inefficient or even impossible. Intrinsic motivation provides a structure to
this meaningless exploration process, allowing the agent to actively investigate and learn
from its environment even in the absence of an extrinsic reward.52

5.4.2. Curiosity-Driven Exploration Algorithms

Curiosity can be formulated as the discrepancy between an agent's expectations about the
world and what it actually observes. The agent is intrinsically rewarded for exploring the
most "surprising" or "unpredictable" situations. Several popular algorithms are based on this
principle:
● Intrinsic Curiosity Module (ICM): In this method, the agent learns a forward model that
tries to predict the features of the next state based on the current state and action. The
intrinsic reward is derived from the prediction error of this model. If the agent cannot
accurately predict the outcome of its action (i.e., it gets a high prediction error), this is
considered "curiosity-inducing" for it, and it receives a high intrinsic reward. This
mechanism encourages the agent to explore the regions where it has the most
uncertainty about its world model.54
● Random Network Distillation (RND): This approach is more robust against a trap known
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that is randomly initialized and has its weights frozen, and (2) a predictor network that
learns to mimic the output of the target network for any given state. The intrinsic
reward is the difference between the outputs produced by these two networks for the
same state. For states that the agent has frequently visited and "knows," the predictor
network's error will be low, so it receives little reward. However, when it comes to a
new and unexplored (out-of-distribution) state, the predictor network's error will be
high, creating a large curiosity reward.56 The agent does not get stuck on meaningless
but hard-to-predict random noise sources in the environment (e.g., a TV screen showing
static), because since the target network is fixed, the output of this noise is also fixed,
and the predictor network eventually learns this and loses interest.58

5.4.3. Advantages of Exploration and Application Examples

Intrinsic motivation significantly enhances the exploration capabilities of agents, enabling
them to solve many challenging problems where traditional methods fail.
● Challenging Exploration Games: The Atari game Montezuma's Revenge is famous for its
sparse rewards. Agents learning with only extrinsic rewards often cannot even get out
of the first room. However, agents using intrinsic motivation (especially RND) can reach
much higher levels and achieve superhuman scores because they find it rewarding to
discover new rooms, keys, and enemies.58
● Maze Solving: In a maze where the reward is only given at the exit, an agent with
intrinsic motivation rewards itself for exploring every new corridor or unvisited corner.
This allows the agent to systematically scan the maze, including dead ends, and
increases its chances of eventually finding the correct path. An agent focused on the
extrinsic reward might wander randomly in the absence of a reward or get stuck in a
loop.50
● Robotics: A robot simply playing with objects in its environment without a specific
external task (often called "motor babbling") is a result of intrinsic motivation. The
robot rewards itself for performing actions that create unexpected changes (surprises)
in sensory data, such as haptics or vision. In this process, it learns physical properties of
objects like their weight, texture, and how they move.62 This lays the foundation for a
task-independent and transferable skill set that is essential for any future manipulation
task.

In conclusion, intrinsic motivation endows agents with the ability to set and pursue their
own goals. This deepens the learning process and elevates the level of autonomous
intelligence, especially in complex and uncertain environments where extrinsic rewards are
insufficient, sparse, or delayed.

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5.5. Synthesis and Future Perspectives: The Convergence of Self-

Learning Paradigms
The paradigms of self-play, self-improvement, curriculum learning, and intrinsic motivation
examined in this unit are not isolated approaches but rather complementary and reinforcing
building blocks in the development of autonomous agents. The convergence of these
paradigms holds the key to the emergence of more capable, flexible, and adaptive agents,
while also presenting significant technical and ethical challenges.

5.5.1. Hybrid Architectures and Synergies

The advanced agents of the future will likely have hybrid architectures that combine these
learning mechanisms. The synergies between these approaches can lead to capabilities that
could not be achieved by any single one alone.5
● Self-Play and Curriculum Learning: These two approaches have a natural synergy. In
models like Asymmetric Self-Play, one agent (Alice) proposing increasingly difficult tasks
to another (Bob) is clearly a mechanism for creating an automatic curriculum.65 Alice
maximizes Bob's learning progress by finding tasks at the edge of his capabilities.
● Curriculum Learning and Intrinsic Motivation: An automatic curriculum learning
"teacher" can use the student's potential "curiosity" level for a task as a signal when
selecting the most appropriate task. The tasks that the student is most curious about
(i.e., where the prediction error is highest) are often the tasks with the highest learning
potential. This integration can create more efficient and motivating curricula.5
● Self-Improvement and Continual Learning: For a self-improving system like SEAL or
DGM to be practical, it must not destroy previous knowledge with each improvement
step. Therefore, their integration with mechanisms that prevent catastrophic forgetting
is essential.1

5.5.2. Continual Learning and the Problem of Catastrophic Forgetting

One of the biggest challenges for self-learning agents is the problem of catastrophic
forgetting. This is the situation where a neural network, while learning a new task,
significantly loses its performance on previously learned tasks.1 For a continuously and
lifelong learning agent, this is an unacceptable situation. The main approaches to solving this
problem are:
● Regularization-Based Methods: Algorithms like Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) try
to preserve information by slowing down the rate of change of synaptic weights that
are identified as important for old tasks. This ensures that important memories are
overwritten more slowly.1
● Architecture-Based Methods: Progressive Neural Networks (PNNs) add new modules
(columns) to the network for each new task and completely freeze the weights of the
old tasks. The new task modules can transfer features learned from previous tasks
through lateral connections. This completely prevents catastrophic forgetting but
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causes the network size to grow continuously with the number of tasks, which creates
scalability issues.1

5.5.3. Ethical and Security Dimensions of Self-Improving Agents

The rise of self-learning agents, especially those that can change their own goals or code (like
SEAL, DGM), also brings with it deep ethical and security issues.67
● Accountability: If an autonomous agent, by modifying itself, performs an unexpected or
harmful action, who is responsible for this action? The developer who first programmed
the agent, the company that deployed it, or the agent itself? This situation challenges
existing legal and ethical responsibility frameworks.59 The case where Air Canada's
chatbot gave incorrect information and the court held the company responsible is a
concrete example of the challenges in this area.59
● Value Alignment: An agent, while self-improving to maximize a certain performance
metric (e.g., profit or efficiency), may in the process turn to goals that conflict with
human values or are socially harmful. For example, a supply chain optimization agent
could develop a strategy that systematically drives small suppliers to bankruptcy in
order to increase efficiency.67 Ensuring that the agent's objective function remains
permanently aligned with human values, even as it evolves, is one of the most
fundamental problems of AI safety.
● Control and Transparency: The decision-making processes of these agents can become
increasingly opaque and incomprehensible as they change themselves. It is extremely
difficult to predict and control the future behavior of a system that evolves its own
code. This situation increases the risk of a "rogue agent" and can lead to unpredictable
consequences.67

To mitigate these risks, multi-layered strategies such as human-in-the-loop mechanisms,

transparency and explainability requirements, strict security protocols (e.g., sandboxing),
gradual increases in agent authority, and legal frameworks like the EU's AI Act are
proposed.35

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Conclusion: The Dawn of Autonomous Intelligence and Our

Responsibilities
The paradigms of self-play, self-improvement, curriculum learning, and intrinsic motivation
examined throughout this unit are fundamentally changing the nature of artificial
intelligence. The convergence of these approaches is transforming AI from static, task-
oriented tools into dynamic, learning, adapting, and even evolving entities. This opens the
way for the emergence of not only more capable but also more unpredictable and
potentially riskier agents.

It is clear that the path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) lies in mastering these self-
learning mechanisms. However, true progress on this journey will be measured not only by
increasing the capabilities of agents, but also by our ability to design, guide, and control
these powerful systems in a way that is safe, aligned with human values, and ultimately
beneficial to humanity. At the dawn of autonomous intelligence, our greatest responsibility
is to shape these new forms of intelligence with wisdom and foresight.

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Table 2: Milestone Self-Learning Agent Systems

System Developer Domain/Task Core Self-Learning Key Scientific

Method Contribution

AlphaZero DeepMind Perfect Self-Play (with Superhuman

information MCTS) strategy discovery
games (Go, Chess, from tabula rasa
Shogi) learning 15

DeepNash DeepMind Imperfect Self-Play (with R- Convergence to

information game NaD, game unexploitable
(Stratego) theory) equilibrium in
imperfect
information
games 14

Cicero Meta AI Negotiation and Hybrid: Self-Play + Combining

strategy game Language strategic
(Diplomacy) Modeling reasoning with
natural language
negotiation 24

SEAL MIT Knowledge Self-Editing + RL LLMs

integration, few- autonomously
shot learning updating their
own weights 4

Darwin Gödel Zhang et al. Coding, self- Evolutionary Code An agent evolving
Machine (DGM) improvement Modification its own source
code 35

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6.Human-Agent Interaction
Introduction
The primary goal of this unit is to conduct an in-depth examination of the multidimensional
and complex nature of the interaction between artificial intelligence agents and humans.
Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) is the most critical element in an agent's transition from
being merely a tool to becoming a partner, assistant, or teammate. The quality of this
interaction directly determines the agent's acceptance, effectiveness of use, and ultimate
success. In this context, this unit will be structured around two fundamental and deeply
interconnected axes: (1) Natural Interaction Interfaces, which refers to the technical
infrastructure of the channels (language, speech, visual, haptic) through which agents
communicate with humans, and (2) Trust and Explainability, which refers to the
psychological and socio-technical foundations of this interaction.
These two axes cannot be considered independently; on the contrary, a symbiotic relationship
exists between them. Natural and intuitive interfaces enhance trust by enabling the transparent
communication of the agent's intentions and decisions 1, while a trustworthy and explainable
agent encourages the user to utilize these interfaces more effectively and confidently.2 In this
section, this interdependent relationship will be highlighted, and the fundamental principles
for designing human-centered artificial intelligence agents, current technological
advancements, and future challenges will be comprehensively analyzed.

6.1.Natural Interaction Interfaces

The interface technologies that form the communication bridge between humans and
agents are the fundamental components that determine the naturalness and efficiency of
the interaction. Based on the multimodal nature of human communication—that is, the
simultaneous use of multiple sensory channels (speech, gestures, facial expressions,
touch)—the potential for artificial intelligence agents to establish richer, context-aware, and
robust interactions by using multiple channels such as language, speech, vision, and touch is
progressively increasing.3 This topic will cover the technical infrastructure behind these
interfaces, their operating principles, and real-world applications in detail.

6.1.1: Language and Speech Interfaces – The role of natural language

processing and speech technologies in the interaction of artificial intelligence
agents with humans
Introduction: Fundamentals of Conversational AI
The most natural, common, and intuitive form of human-agent interaction is undoubtedly
speech. Speech interfaces have the potential to make technology more accessible, rendering
complex software or devices usable even for non-technical users.4 The primary goal of these
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and generate responses in a natural language based on that understanding.4 This capability
is made possible by Natural Language Processing (NLP), a subfield of artificial intelligence,
and related speech technologies.

Technical Architecture of Speech Interaction: The Journey from Sound to Meaning, and
from Meaning to Sound
The process by which an artificial intelligence agent, such as a voice assistant, perceives a
spoken command from a user and produces a meaningful and actionable response requires
a complex stack of integrated technologies. This process can generally be modeled as a
"pipeline" consisting of five main steps.6
1. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): This is the first and most fundamental step of the
process. The task of ASR systems is to convert analog sound waves received from a
microphone into digital data and then into text.6 This is accomplished using
acoustic models, which break down audio signals into basic acoustic units like
phonemes (the smallest distinctive sound unit in a language), and language models,
which convert these units into meaningful word sequences.11 Modern ASR systems are
trained on massive amounts of speech data, thousands of hours long, featuring
different speakers, accents, speech rates, and most importantly, noisy environmental
conditions, using
deep neural networks.8 The accuracy of the ASR system is a critical foundation for the
performance of the entire interaction chain, as an error at this stage will negatively
affect all subsequent steps.10
2. Natural Language Understanding (NLU): This is the core component responsible for
extracting the "meaning" of the expression converted to text by ASR. NLU takes the raw
text and transforms it into a structured format that the agent can process. This process
involves several sub-tasks: splitting the text into words or phrases (tokenization),
finding the root forms of words (lemmatization/stemming), analyzing the grammatical
structure (POS tagging), and most importantly, identifying the user's intent and the key
information in the expression, known as entities.10 For example, when a user says,
"Schedule a meeting with Aniqa at 1 PM on Tuesday" 10, NLU classifies the intent of this
sentence as
schedule_appointment and extracts the entities as date: Tuesday, time: 1 PM, and
person: Aniqa. This step converts unstructured and ambiguous human language into a
format that the machine can process precisely.
3. Dialogue Management (DM): This can be considered the brain of the conversation. It
takes the structured data from NLU, tracks the history and current context of the
conversation, and decides what to do next.17 This decision could be to retrieve
information from a database 14, call an API (Application Programming Interface), ask the
user a clarifying question, or perform an action. The dialogue manager ensures that the
conversation remains coherent, goal-oriented, and fluent. While traditional systems
used rule-based managers based on predefined dialogue flows 16, modern systems
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perform this task dynamically using statistical methods, reinforcement learning, or the
state and context-tracking capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs).8
4. Natural Language Generation (NLG): This component converts the response or action
result decided by the dialogue manager into human-readable, grammatically correct,
and natural text.13 This stage not only conveys the correct information but also
determines the agent's personality, speaking style, and tone. Generative AI-based
agents offer more flexible and human-like interactions by producing new and original
answers appropriate to the context, rather than using ready-made templates or
predefined responses.20
5. Text-to-Speech (TTS): This is the final link in the speech interaction chain. It converts
the text generated by NLG back into a human voice.10 Modern TTS engines not only
read the text but also imitate prosodic elements such as intonation, emphasis, rhythm,
and even emotion, producing highly natural and convincing speech.22 This is particularly
critical for applications where voice interaction is primary, such as smart home
assistants, where the user perceives the agent as an "entity."
Case Analysis: Smart Home Assistants and Chatbots
To understand how this theoretical architecture works in practice, it is useful to examine two
of the most common types of conversational agents today: smart home assistants and
chatbots.
● Smart Home Assistants (Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa): These agents use the
architecture described above to perform a wide variety of tasks such as home
automation, information access, media management, and personal organization.23 For
example, when a user gives the command, "Hey Google, turn on the lights in the living
room," this command is sent to a cloud-based infrastructure. Here, the ASR module
converts the voice to text. Then, the NLU module identifies the intent as
device_control and the entities as device: lights, location: living room, and action: on.
The dialogue manager forwards this structured information to the smart home platform
API linked to the user's account to control the relevant device. When the action is
successful, the NLG and TTS modules produce a voice confirmation response like, "Okay,
turning on the lights in the living room," and send it back to the user's device. The real
power of these assistants comes from their extensive ecosystem of "skills" or "actions"
that can integrate with devices from different manufacturers (smart bulbs, thermostats,
security cameras) and various digital services (Spotify, Google Calendar, news
sources).23 These integrations are typically managed through a cloud-based
infrastructure, which allows for large-scale data processing and continuous learning.22
● Chatbots: Chatbots, generally designed for text-based interactions on websites,
messaging apps, or internal corporate platforms, are widely used in areas such as
customer service 16, sales and marketing 28, and personal assistance.20 Technologically,
they range from simple rule-based and keyword-driven bots that follow predefined
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conversation history, and generate personalized responses.20 AI-powered bots,

especially through NLP and machine learning, become more capable and accurate over
time by learning from users' past interactions and the questions they ask.20 Their
architecture similarly consists of a front-end (user interface), an NLU engine, a dialogue
manager, and often a knowledge base containing information about the company's
products or policies.17
The Importance and Challenges of Establishing Human-like Dialogue
An agent's ability to engage in human-like dialogue is not just a functional necessity but also
a fundamental element for user satisfaction, trust, and interaction quality.
● Importance: Human-like dialogue makes the interaction smoother and more efficient.
Users have a more positive experience with agents that understand them, provide clear
and consistent responses, and even act proactively by anticipating their needs.30 This
can lead to the agent being perceived not as a cold tool, but as a "partner" or "friend"
with whom users can connect.33 A successful dialogue creates a sense of mutual
understanding and empathy, thereby reinforcing trust in the agent.30
● Challenges: The richness and complexity inherent in human language pose significant
challenges for human-like dialogue systems. The main challenges include:
○ Semantic Ambiguity and Context: The fact that the same expression can have
completely different meanings in different contexts (polysemy) and the difficulty of
maintaining context by remembering past information in long, multi-turn
conversations.5
○ Understanding Nuances: Correctly interpreting irony, humor, implication, and
various emotional tones, which are integral parts of human communication, is still a
major difficulty for current systems.33
○ Consistency: The agent must produce logically consistent responses throughout the
dialogue that do not contradict its established persona or previously stated
information.33
○ Technical and Environmental Challenges: There are also technical obstacles such as
accurately recognizing speech in high-noise environments 8, understanding
different accents and dialects 10, and producing responses with low latency to
create a sense of fluent conversation.7

The architecture of conversational AI systems traditionally exhibited a structure composed

of well-defined and separate modules (ASR, NLU, DM, NLG, TTS).6 This modular approach
offered a manageable structure from an engineering perspective, allowing each component
to be developed and optimized separately. However, an inherent weakness in this structure
is the risk of "cascading error." For example, an incorrect recognition of a word by the ASR
module can propagate through the NLU and dialogue management steps, leading to a
completely wrong response. Additionally, the transition between each module increases the
total processing time, causing latency. In recent years, especially with the rise of the

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Transformer architecture and Large Language Models (LLMs), this modular structure has
been trending towards more integrated,

"end-to-end" models.8 This new generation of models combines multiple steps of the
pipeline within a single deep neural network. For instance, an LLM can implicitly merge the
NLU and NLG steps by directly generating a response text from a raw text input.39 Current
research even aims to combine ASR and LLMs into a single model, moving directly from voice
to a meaningful action or response.41 This integrated approach holds the potential for more
fluent, consistent, and context-aware dialogues, as it reduces information loss between
intermediate steps and allows the model to process the input holistically. However, this also
makes the system's inner workings more opaque, deepening the "black box" problem. While
it is easier to understand which step failed in a modular system, tracing the reason for a
decision in an end-to-end model becomes more difficult. This situation further increases the
importance of the second part of the unit, "Trust and Explainability."

Furthermore, the goal of creating "human-like" dialogue harbors a paradox within itself.
While research shows that human-like interactions increase user satisfaction 30, it is also
observed that as users realize how human-like an agent is behaving, their expectations rise
to the level they would expect from a human, and their tolerance for errors decreases.34 This
situation is also related to the "uncanny valley" hypothesis. Inconsistencies or semantic
errors that a human would not make can more quickly erode trust in a human-like agent.33
Moreover, it is clear that the "best" or "most natural" response varies from person to
person.34 Therefore, the most effective approach is not to try to create a single universal
"human-like" personality, but for the agent to develop

personalized and situationally adaptive dialogue strategies that align with the user's
personality, emotional state, and preferences.36 This means that future agents will need to
possess not only NLU but also

user modeling and affective computing capabilities.18 The agent should create a model of
the user's personality and current mood based on their tone of voice 47, word choice, or
interaction history, and adapt its responses accordingly. This gives rise to new and dynamic
research areas such as "personalized dialogue" 48 and "empathetic dialogue".48

Technology Core Function Key Strengths Weaknesses/Chall

Techniques/Mode enges
ls

ASR (Speech Converting voice Acoustic Models, Increasing Difficulty in noisy

Recognition) 9 Language Models, accuracy across environments,
input to text.
Deep Neural different accents, natural free-style
Networks (DNN), speakers, and speech, and
noise conditions; previously

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End-to-End use in areas like unheard proper

Models (E2E).10 language nouns or technical
learning.10 jargon.8

NLU (Natural Extracting the Intent Making sense of Understanding

Language meaning and Recognition, complex and nuances like
Understanding) user's intent from Named Entity unstructured user semantic
text.15 Recognition queries; providing ambiguity, irony,
(NER), context-aware humor;
Tokenization, POS responses.10 dependency on a
Tagging, BERT, limited number of
LLMs.10 predefined
intents.10

Dialogue Managing the Rule-Based Maintaining Losing context in

Management flow and state of Systems, coherent and long-term
the conversation, Reinforcement goal-oriented dialogues;
deciding on the Learning (RL), dialogues; inflexible rule-
next action.17 Dialogue State preserving based systems;
Tracking (DST), context; complexity of
LLMs, Knowledge connecting to proactive and
Graphs.16 external mixed-initiative
information dialogues.18
sources and
APIs.10

NLG (Natural Creating natural Template-Based Generating Ensuring the

Language and readable text Systems, consistent, accuracy and
Generation) from structured Generative diverse, and factuality of the
information.5 Models (e.g., context- generated text
GPT), LLMs.20 appropriate ("hallucination"
responses; giving risk); producing
the agent a repetitive or
personality and meaningless
speaking style.15 responses.

TTS (Text-to- Converting textual Concatenative Producing human- High

Speech) response into TTS, Parametric like voices with computational
spoken voice.21 TTS, Neural natural cost; risk of
Vocoders, intonation, robotic or
WaveNet, emphasis, and monotonous
Tacotron.52 emotion; offering voice quality;
different voices difficulty in
and styles.22 reflecting subtle
emotional
nuances.

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Table 1: Comparative Analysis of Conversational AI Pipeline Technologies

6.1.2: Visual and Haptic Interfaces – Visual perception and haptic feedback
enable agents to have a richer interaction with the physical world
Introduction: Interaction Beyond Speech
Human interaction is not limited to language and speech; visual cues (gestures, facial
expressions, gaze direction) and physical contact are an integral and enriching part of
communication. This sub-topic examines from a technical perspective how artificial
intelligence agents acquire these multimodal capabilities, that is, how they "see" and "feel"
the physical world. These abilities allow agents to move beyond being just digital assistants
and become entities that work alongside humans in the physical world (e.g., industrial
robots) or that enrich reality (e.g., augmented reality).55 Visual and haptic interfaces extend
the agent's perception and action loop beyond the digital world, enabling a tangible
connection with the physical environment.57

Visual Perception and Computer Vision

Artificial intelligence agents process visual data collected through cameras and other visual
sensors (e.g., LiDAR, depth cameras) to understand their environment, recognize objects,
comprehend spatial relationships, and make autonomous decisions based on this
information.57 This process covers a wide range of applications, from an autonomous vehicle
recognizing pedestrians and traffic signs on the road 58 to a quality control robot detecting a
faulty product on a production line.
● Understanding Human Movements: In human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios, the
robot's understanding of human intent and actions is critical for safe and efficient
collaboration. Computer vision plays a central role in providing this understanding.
Specifically, human pose estimation techniques create a skeletal model by detecting
key joint points (keypoints) in the human body from video or image data.59 This skeletal
data is used to recognize basic actions such as "walking," "reaching for an object," or
"bending".59 Deep learning models, particularly recurrent neural networks like
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, can recognize spatiotemporal (space-time)
activities with high accuracy by analyzing the temporal sequences in this skeletal data.59
This capability allows the robot to predict the human's next move, plan its own
movements accordingly, and avoid potential collisions.62
● Case Analysis: Industrial Robots and Augmented Reality (AR):
○ Industrial Robots (Cobots): In modern manufacturing facilities, collaborative robots
(cobots) that share the same workspace with humans are becoming increasingly
common. These robots consist of articulated arms (manipulators) that mimic the
human arm and have multiple degrees of freedom.63 Cobots process images from
their onboard cameras to recognize the operator's hand and arm movements,
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gestures, or body posture and adapt their own movements in real-time.67 For
example, a robot that detects an operator reaching for a part on the assembly line
can slow down, stop, or plan an alternative path to avoid a collision. Such systems
use techniques like deep learning-based gesture recognition 67 and even facial
recognition for operator authentication or emotional state analysis.67
○ Augmented Reality (AR) Interfaces: AR is an interface technology that enriches
human-machine interaction by overlaying computer-generated virtual information
(text, 3D models, animations) onto the real-world view.70 In robot programming, AR
offers an intuitive and accessible alternative to traditional, complex, and expertise-
requiring methods (writing code, using a teach pendant).71 The user, through AR
glasses (e.g., Xreal, HoloLens) or a mobile device, sees a virtual twin overlaid on the
physical robot.71 The user can define the desired trajectory with hand gestures (e.g.,
a "pinch" gesture) 71 or by directly moving the virtual robot's end-effector. The
system translates these virtual movements into real-time commands for the
robot.70 This approach significantly speeds up the programming process, reduces
errors, and most importantly, allows the planned trajectory to be visualized and
verified in a safe virtual environment before it is physically executed.72
Haptic Interfaces and Physical Feedback
While visual perception allows the robot to understand its surroundings, haptic feedback lets
the user "feel" the robot's physical interaction with the environment. This plays a critical
role, especially in tasks requiring remote control (teleoperation), virtual reality training, and
delicate manipulation, as it increases the user's situational awareness and provides more
intuitive control.75
● Haptic Technologies: Haptic feedback is generally provided through two main methods:
1. Kinesthetic Feedback: This provides the sensation of the weight, stiffness, viscosity
of a virtual or remote object, or the force of a collision by applying resistance to the
user's movements. This is usually provided through robotic arms or advanced
joysticks and creates a sense of large-scale motion.77
2. Vibrotactile Feedback: This communicates finer tactile information such as texture,
roughness, friction, or the moment of contact by applying vibrations of different
frequencies and amplitudes to the user's skin. This technology is implemented
through wearable devices (gloves, vests, wristbands) and is generally lower in cost,
less complex, and more portable than force feedback.79
● Case Analysis: Human-Robot Collaboration Scenarios:
○ Precise Assembly and Manipulation: A robot measures the forces and torques that
occur when it holds an object or touches a surface using force-torque sensors
attached to its end.81 This sensor data is transmitted back to the operator in real-
time via a haptic device (e.g., a haptic glove).83 This allows the operator to feel how
much force the robot is applying, enabling it to hold a fragile egg without crushing it
or assemble a screw without overtightening it.76 This significantly increases

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situational awareness and task success, especially in situations where visual

feedback is insufficient (e.g., blind grasping or obstructed view).85
○ Safety and Communication: In a shared workspace, the robot's planned movement
trajectory can be communicated to the operator via a wearable haptic device (e.g.,
a vibrating wristband or vest).62 When the operator gets too close to the robot's
planned path, the intensity of the vibration increases, serving as an intuitive
warning and preventing potential collisions.86 This proactive communication not
only enhances physical safety but also increases efficiency by allowing the operator
to predict the robot's next move and reinforces trust in the agent by reducing the
employee's anxiety from uncertainty.62

Effective human-agent interaction requires multimodal interfaces that combine multiple

sensory channels (visual, auditory, haptic) rather than relying on a single communication
channel. This approach not only provides a richer and more intuitive interaction but also
increases the system's robustness and reliability by allowing other channels to compensate
when one channel fails or is insufficient. For example, a teleoperation task based solely on
visual feedback becomes difficult in situations like poor lighting or camera occlusion.79 At
this point, haptic feedback can step in to compensate for visual deficiencies.85 Even if the
operator cannot see an object clearly, they can "feel" the robot touching the object through
a haptic glove. Similarly, while voice commands may be unreliable in a noisy factory
environment, ambiguity can be reduced by combining them with a visual command in an AR
interface (touching an object).88 The transmission of the same critical information (e.g., a
collision warning) in different ways through multiple channels ensures that this information
reaches the operator. This

redundancy is of vital importance, especially in safety-critical industrial environments 90 and

military operations. Therefore, future HRI systems should be designed not as singular
interfaces but as integrated and multimodal platforms that dynamically adapt to the
requirements of the task and context.3

However, the role of haptic technology is also evolving. Initially, haptic feedback was
primarily used to provide information about the robot's physical state (e.g., contact force,
vibration).78 This is largely a reactive feedback. But current research shows that haptic
interfaces can also be used to convey more abstract and cognitive information (e.g., the
robot's intent, planned trajectory, the location of unseen obstacles in the environment). For
example, a robot reporting its planned trajectory with vibrations on the operator's arm

before hitting a wall is a proactive form of communication and conveys the robot's
"intent".62 This ensures that the operator's mental model is synchronized with the robot's
plan. This has the potential to significantly increase not only individual performance but also
team performance, efficiency, and subjective satisfaction.62 This trend shows that haptic
interfaces are evolving from being just a sensory transmission tool to a tool for creating

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mutual understanding and a shared mental model between human and agent. This could be
a fundamental component for increasing trust and transparency in human-agent teams.

Scenario Dominant Key Technologies Benefits Provided Limitations/Chall

Interface enges

Collaborative Multimodal Computer Vision Increased safety Complexity and

Assembly (Cobot) (Visual + Haptic) (Pose Estimation, (collision unpredictability of
Gesture avoidance), higher human
Recognition), precision, movements,
Force-Torque efficiency gains, difficulty in real-
Sensors, Haptic reduced time tracking and
Feedback ergonomic load response, sensor
(Force/Vibration). on the operator.78 noise.60
67

Robot Visually Dominant Augmented Intuitive and fast Hardware cost

Programming (AR) Reality (AR) programming, (AR glasses),
with AR Glasses/Devices, reduced need for calibration
3D Modeling coding precision between
(Digital Twin), knowledge, safe virtual and real
Hand testing in a virtual worlds, accuracy
Tracking/Gesture environment, of hand tracking.
Recognition, reduced cognitive
Virtual Trajectory load.71
Planning.70

Teleoperation in Haptic Dominant Haptic Operator safety, Communication

Hazardous Gloves/Devices, sense of physical latency, quality
Environments Remote Control interaction with and realism of
Systems, Visual the remote haptic feedback,
Feedback environment, operator fatigue,
(Camera), Force precise high cost.
and Vibration manipulation
Sensors.83 capability,
compensating for
visual
deficiencies.85

Autonomous Multimodal LiDAR, Cameras, Increased Presenting too

Vehicle-Passenger (Visual + Auditory Speech Interfaces, situational much information
Interaction + Haptic) Touchscreens, awareness, to the passenger
Haptic Alerts (e.g., passenger trust, (cognitive
steering wheel transparent overload), false
vibration). communication of alarms, meeting
vehicle intentions, the expectations
of different users.

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emergency
warnings.

Table 2: Application of Visual and Haptic Interfaces in Human-Agent Interaction Scenarios

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6.2.Trust and Explainability

This topic transitions from the technical dimension of human-agent interaction to the
psychological and socio-technical dimension, which is at least as critical for its success. The
overall success of a system is determined not only by how technologically capable an agent
is, but also by how much a human trusts that agent and understands its decisions. This
section will examine how trust can be established by making the decision-making processes
of artificial intelligence agents transparent, and how humans and agents can work together
harmoniously within complex team dynamics.

6.2.1: Explainable AI and Trust – Making agents' decision-making processes

transparent increases the trust human users have in them
Introduction: Transparency as the Foundation of Trust and the "Black Box" Problem
Modern artificial intelligence models, especially complex architectures like deep learning,
are often described as "black boxes." This term refers to the fact that the internal workings
of a model, why it produces a particular output or decision when given an input, are not fully
understandable to humans, and sometimes even to its developers.95 This lack of
transparency creates a significant barrier to trust, especially in high-risk areas that directly
affect human life, such as healthcare 97, finance 99, law, and autonomous vehicles.1002 A
doctor may hesitate to trust an AI that suggests a particular diagnosis without understanding
why; a driver may lose confidence in an autonomous vehicle if they do not understand why it
suddenly braked. This is where

Explainable AI (XAI) comes in. XAI aims to open this black box, to reveal the "why" and
"how" behind artificial intelligence decisions, and thus to make systems more transparent,
interpretable, and therefore trustworthy.99 Trust is closely related not only to the correct
functioning of the system, but also to principles such as fairness, accountability, and
robustness, and XAI provides a basis for auditing these principles.99

XAI Techniques: Methods for Illuminating the Black Box

XAI encompasses a range of techniques aimed at making models more transparent, rather
than a single method. These techniques can generally be divided into two main categories:
● Inherently Interpretable Models: The structure of these models naturally facilitates
human understanding of their decision-making processes. These models are also called
"white-box" models. Examples include:
○ Decision Trees: They show step-by-step how a decision is reached by presenting a
series of "if-then" rules in the form of a visual flowchart.99
○ Linear Regression: It clearly indicates with coefficients how much and in what
direction (positive/negative) each input feature contributes to the final outcome.99

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show as high prediction accuracy as more complex "black box" models, especially
on complex datasets.104
● Post-Hoc Explanation Methods: These model-agnostic techniques are applied after the
training of any "black box" model is complete to explain its individual predictions or
overall behavior. They are quite popular due to their flexibility. The two most common
methods are:
○ LIME (Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations): It works by locally
approximating the decision boundary around a specific individual prediction with a
simple and interpretable model (e.g., a linear model). It essentially answers local
questions like, "Why was this diagnosis made for this specific patient?" or "Why was
this credit application rejected?" It observes the model's response by making small
changes (perturbations) to the input data and determines which features were
most effective for the current decision.105
○ SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations): It uses Shapley values from cooperative
game theory to fairly distribute how much each feature contributed to the
formation of a prediction. SHAP calculates the contribution of a feature not only by
its presence or absence but also by considering its interaction with other features.
Its biggest advantage is that it can provide both local explanations for individual
predictions and global explanations that summarize the overall behavior of the
model.105
● Visual Explanations for Deep Learning: Visualizing the model's decision mechanism is a
powerful XAI technique, especially in computer vision tasks. The visualization of
attention mechanisms stands out in this area. Attention maps (usually in the form of
heatmaps) show which pixels or regions the model "focused" on more when classifying
an image, or which words when translating a text. This provides an opportunity to check
whether the model's logic is consistent with human intuition and to understand
whether the model is making a mistake by focusing on irrelevant features.109
Case Analysis: Medical Diagnosis Agents and Trust Building
To illustrate the role of XAI in building trust, let's consider a medical diagnosis agent
scenario.
● Scenario: A radiologist is supported by an artificial intelligence agent that analyzes
mammography images and identifies potential lesions. The agent indicates that there is
a high probability of a malignant lesion in an image.
● Explanation Process: Instead of just providing a probability score, the agent explains its
decision in a multi-layered way using XAI techniques:
1. Attention Visualization: It visually highlights the specific microcalcification cluster,
the irregular borders of the lesion, and tissue abnormalities it focused on when
making its decision by showing a heatmap on the mammogram image.96 This
instantly shows the doctor "where" the agent was looking.
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explanation such as, "The most influential factors in my decision were the irregular
shape of the lesion (40% effect), its density (30% effect), and the ambiguity of its
border (20% effect)".107 This allows the doctor to compare the agent's logic with
their clinical knowledge.
3. Example-Based Explanation: The agent presents similar past cases that support its
decision, saying, "This case shows 95% similarity to 3 of the confirmed malignant
cases in my database".105 This shows whether the agent's decision is an exceptional
case or based on a known pattern.
● Impact on Trust: This multi-layered and multimodal explanation allows the radiologist
to understand the agent's "thought process." This transparency creates informed trust
rather than blind trust or suspicion. The radiologist can compare the agent's logic with
their own expertise, detect potential errors (e.g., the AI focusing on an image artifact),
and make the final decision themselves. In this process, the artificial intelligence
transforms from an autonomous decision-maker into a reliable clinical decision support
system that presents the evidence behind its decisions.97

Although the common belief is "more explanation = more trust," this relationship is not
linear and involves more complex dynamics. Trust is affected not only by the presence of
transparency but also by the quality of the explanation, the user's level of expertise, and
the criticality of the task. For example, a poorly designed, misleading, or difficult-to-
understand (requiring high cognitive load) explanation can lead to more loss of trust than no
explanation at all.116 A study by Zakershahrak et al. shows that users perceive complex
explanations presented piece by piece (online) during the task as less mentally taxing and
prefer them over explanations presented all at once.117 Furthermore, while an expert user
(e.g., a radiologist) may find a technical explanation useful, a patient may find the same
explanation confusing and alarming. This highlights the need to tailor explanations to the
target audience.104 Therefore, an effective XAI system should not only generate explanations
but also present the

right explanation, at the right time, and to the right person, in an understandable format.
This forms the basis of a new research area called "human-centered XAI".18

Although the primary purpose of XAI is to build trust and facilitate debugging, it has a deeper
and more transformative effect: it accelerates the development of a shared mental model
by enabling humans and agents to learn from each other. This process works as a feedback
loop: The agent makes a decision and explains the reason for this decision to the human via
XAI. The human, through this explanation, learns which factors the agent prioritizes, which
rules it follows, and the limits of its capabilities. This allows the human to better predict the
agent's future behavior. If the human notices that the agent's explanation is faulty or
incomplete (e.g., "You missed this important factor"), they provide feedback to the agent.
The agent uses this feedback to update its own model or decision-making process, thus
learning the human's priorities and mental model. This mutual learning cycle, over time,

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leads to the development of a common understanding between the human and the agent
about the task, goals, and each other's roles. In this context, XAI functions not only as a
transparency tool but also as an in-team training and alignment tool, laying a fundamental
groundwork for the next sub-topic, "Human-Agent Team Dynamics."

6.2.2.Human-Agent Team Dynamics – In environments where humans and

autonomous agents work as a joint team, trust, role distribution, and
communication are of critical importance
Introduction: Transition from Tool to Teammate
This sub-topic shifts from considering the artificial intelligence agent as an individual entity
to seeing it as part of a team. Human-Agent Teams (HATs) aim to achieve results that
neither the human nor the agent could achieve alone by combining the human's perceptual,
creative, and strategic abilities with the agent's computational power, speed, precision, and
endurance.118 The emergence of this synergy depends on understanding and effectively
managing complex team dynamics such as trust, role distribution, and communication. HAT
is a paradigm shift in which the agent moves from being a passive tool that receives and
executes a command to a proactive teammate working in mutual dependence with the
human towards common goals.120

Task and Role Allocation: Who, When, What?

The cornerstone of effective teamwork is assigning tasks to the right member at the right
time. In HATs, this process is called task allocation and it directly affects the overall
performance of the team.121
● Static and Dynamic Allocation: Tasks can be allocated statically according to
predetermined fixed rules (e.g., "The robot always does the heavy lifting, the human
does the quality control"). However, this approach creates an inflexible structure that
cannot adapt to changing conditions.122 In contrast,
dynamic allocation (or adaptive automation) allows for the real-time redistribution of
tasks according to the current state of the task, the environment, and the team
members (such as human fatigue or the agent's current capacity).122 Dynamic allocation
is more flexible and efficient as it allows the team to adapt to changing conditions, but it
requires more complex coordination and communication mechanisms.124
● Allocation Protocols: Different protocols and strategies have been developed to
manage task allocation. These include "turn-taking," where team members take turns
choosing tasks; "performance-based," where the task is assigned to the member who
performs best; or "auction-based" mechanisms, where tasks are distributed through a
kind of auction.121 The choice of these protocols has a direct impact on the team's
efficiency, flexibility, and the human's satisfaction with their involvement in the
process.121

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Communication, Coordination, and Shared Mental Models (SMM)

Effective task allocation and teamwork require fluent communication and coordination
among members.
● Communication Protocols: Agent Communication Languages (ACL) have been
developed so that agents can communicate with each other and with humans in a
structured, unambiguous way. Standards like KQML and FIPA-ACL handle messages in a
three-layer structure: the content of the message (what is said), the communication
parameters, and the intent of the message (why it is said - e.g., request_info,
request_action). This allows the agent to understand not only the data but also the
purpose of the communication.126 Modern approaches also adopt REST-based
protocols, which are more common due to their ease of integration.128
● Shared Mental Models (SMM): The psychological basis of effective teamwork is that all
members have a common understanding of the current state of the task, the overall
goals, their own roles, and the roles and capabilities of other members. This common
and dynamic understanding is called a Shared Mental Model (SMM).129 A robust SMM
increases the team's situational awareness, facilitates coordination, reduces
unnecessary communication, and allows members to accurately predict each other's
actions and adapt their own actions accordingly.131 The agent's transparent
communication and the explanations it provides through XAI contribute significantly to
the formation and maintenance of this shared mental model.106
Case Analysis: Production and Military Operations
● Human-Robot Collaboration on the Production Line: The case study at Siemens' motor
production plant embodies an advanced HAT scenario where a human and a
collaborative robot (cobot) share the same workspace without safety fences.132 In this
scenario,
role allocation is optimized according to the strengths of each member: The KUKA LBR
iiwa robot undertakes repetitive and monotonous tasks that require high precision and
endurance, such as picking up parts, feeding them into the machine, and taking them to
the measurement station. The human operator, on the other hand, performs jobs that
require cognitive flexibility, problem-solving, and fine motor skills, such as quality
control and recalibration. Trust is ensured by the robot's sensitive sensors, which cause
it to stop instantly upon detecting contact with a human; this is a safety protocol that
replaces physical barriers. Communication is realized through interfaces that show the
robot's status and by the human directly intervening in the process by entering the HRC
(Human-Robot Collaboration) zone when necessary.92
● Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) in Military Operations: Scenarios where
manned aircraft (e.g., fighter jets) operate together with AI-powered unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs or "loyal wingmen") are among the most complex and high-risk

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examples of HATs.133 Here,

role allocation is extremely dynamic: UAVs undertake high-risk tasks that are dangerous
for the human pilot, such as reconnaissance, electronic warfare, or carrying additional
munitions. The human commander assumes the role of strategic decision-maker, task
manager, and ultimate authority.134 In this team,
trust and communication are of vital importance. The human commander must trust
the accuracy and integrity of the data coming from the UAV and be sure that the UAV
will correctly execute the given commands. This communication is usually provided
through secure and durable data links compliant with military standards and
standardized protocols like MAVLink.136 This scenario also brings with it deep ethical
and practical debates between "human-in-the-loop" (where the human approves every
critical decision) and "human-on-the-loop" (where the human monitors the process and
intervenes only when necessary) control paradigms.138

Traditional team models often treat roles and structures as fixed and predefined. However,
research on human-agent teams reveals that these teams are not static structures, but
rather dynamic processes that are constantly evolving. This process can be better
understood with models like the T4 framework, which is thought to consist of sequential and
interacting stages such as "Team Formation → Task and Role Development → Team
Development → Team Improvement".120 In real-world tasks, roles do not remain fixed; as an
agent's capabilities develop or a human's cognitive load increases, tasks need to be
redistributed.122 Trust between team members increases or decreases over time depending
on positive or negative experiences.140 Therefore, the protocols and interfaces to be
designed for successful HAT integration must support this dynamic process. Instead of static
role assignments, there is a need for

adaptive automation mechanisms that can dynamically negotiate and reassign roles based
on team performance and the state of the members.120

Another important dimension of these dynamics is the nature of trust. Trust research has
overwhelmingly focused on the one-way trust of humans in agents or robots.140 This
generally reflects a hierarchical relationship where the human is the supervisor. However,
for a truly collaborative and peer-level team dynamic, the necessity for the

robot to also trust the human is emerging as a new and critical research area.143 If a robot
blindly follows a command given by a human or an action taken by them, it remains
vulnerable to human errors, fatigue, or inattention. This can lead to risky situations,
especially in terms of safety. Therefore, future agents need to build a model of the human's
current performance and reliability by observing their actions (consistency, speed, precision,
etc.).143 The robot, by detecting a tremor or hesitation in the human's movements, can lower
its current level of trust and adapt its own actions accordingly. For example, if its trust in the
human is high, it can collaborate more fluently and proactively, whereas if the trust level is

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low, it can act more cautiously, request additional confirmation, or suggest taking over
control of the task.143 This transforms the human-agent relationship from a hierarchical
structure to a more symmetric and peer-level partnership. The concept of "robot's trust in
human" will be a fundamental principle in the design of future adaptive and resilient HAT
systems.

Conclusion
This unit has comprehensively examined the two fundamental and intertwined dimensions
of human-agent interaction (HAI)—namely, natural interfaces and trust/explainability—from
technical and socio-technical perspectives. The analyses show that effective HAI is possible
not only through technological competence but also through a deep understanding of
human psychology and team dynamics.

Regarding Natural Interaction Interfaces, it has been observed that the integration of
speech, visual, and haptic channels enhances the naturalness, richness, and robustness of
interaction. The evolution of conversational AI architectures from modular structures to
integrated, end-to-end models promises more fluent dialogues, while also deepening the
"black box" nature of these systems, making the need for explainability even more critical.
Similarly, the synergy of visual and haptic interfaces, especially in industrial and remote
operation scenarios, not only enables physical tasks to be performed more precisely and
safely but also serves to create a common understanding and situational awareness
between human and agent by communicating the robot's intent.

On the Trust and Explainability axis, it has been revealed that transparency is the
cornerstone of trust, but this relationship is not linear. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
techniques create an environment of informed trust by making agents' decision-making
processes understandable. However, the success of XAI depends not only on providing an
explanation but also on the ability to present the right explanation, at the right time, and to
the right user in an understandable format. More importantly, it has been understood that
XAI is not just a tool for trust, but also an in-team training mechanism that allows humans
and agents to learn from each other and form a shared mental model. This supports the fact
that human-agent teams are dynamic processes where elements such as trust, role
distribution, and communication are constantly evolving, rather than static structures. The
most advanced point of these dynamics is the development of two-way trust models, where
not only the human trusts the agent, but the agent also trusts the human.

Ultimately, the analyses presented in this unit show that the successful artificial intelligence
agents of the future will be systems that can communicate intuitively with humans through
multimodal channels, explain their decision-making processes transparently, and establish
trust-based, peer-level partnerships by adapting to dynamic team environments. Achieving
this goal will require more research and development at the intersection of disciplines such

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as computer science, engineering, psychology, and sociology, with a human-centered

approach.

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7.Testing, Evaluation, Verification, and Validation of

Artificial Intelligence Agents: A Comprehensive Analysis
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, particularly systems with autonomous and learning-based
capabilities, represent a fundamental paradigm shift in the field of software engineering.
While traditional software systems are largely built on deterministic rules and predefined
logic flows, AI agents are designed to make autonomous decisions in complex, dynamic, and
unpredictable environments. These agents learn from the data they perceive from their
surroundings, adapt their strategies based on experience, and inherently exhibit stochastic
or probabilistic behaviors. This fundamental difference renders traditional software testing
and evaluation methodologies inadequate for AI agents. Simple unit tests or integration
tests cannot fully measure how an agent will behave in a constantly changing world, how it
will react to unexpected situations, or how resilient it will be against malicious
manipulations.

In this context, the testing, evaluation, verification, and validation (V&V) of AI agents require
a multi-layered and interdisciplinary framework that holistically addresses the agent's
performance, robustness, safety, and reliability.1 This process questions not only how
"correctly" the agent performs a specific task but also how "efficiently," "safely," and
"consistently" it does so. The goal of building trustworthy AI systems necessitates a rigorous
and comprehensive evaluation philosophy integrated into every stage of the development
lifecycle.

This report aims to provide an in-depth analysis of current methodologies, metrics,

environments, and challenges for the testing and evaluation of AI agents, in light of
academic literature and industrial case studies. The scope of the report extends from
quantitative metrics used to objectively measure agent performance (Section 1.1) to security
and robustness tests that push the system's limits and test its resilience against malicious
attacks (Section 1.2). Subsequently, it will examine how the behavior of agents is verified in
controlled virtual environments before their deployment in the real world (Section 2.1) and
how formal verification techniques, which offer mathematical certainty and guarantees for
the most critical systems, are applied (Section 2.2). This systematic analysis aims to lay out
the cornerstones of building trust and assurance in the process from the development to the
deployment of AI agents.

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7.1.Performance Metrics and Benchmarking

Evaluating the performance of artificial intelligence agents is a fundamental step in
understanding their effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability. This chapter addresses the core
metrics used to quantitatively measure the capabilities of agents and how these metrics are
compared in standardized environments (benchmarking). The evaluation process focuses
not only on how successfully the agent completes its intended tasks but also on how
efficiently it uses resources, how robust it is against unexpected situations, and how
successful it is in interacting with humans.

1.1. Task Success and Efficiency Metrics

This subsection details the metrics and methods used to objectively and reproducibly
measure the effectiveness and operational efficiency of an AI agent. The evaluation covers a
broad spectrum, from the classic metrics of the machine learning models that form the
agent's foundation, to task-specific success rates that indicate whether the agent has
achieved its ultimate goal, to resource usage efficiency that determines operational costs,
and to satisfaction metrics that reflect the user experience. This multi-layered metric
approach provides a holistic picture of the agent's performance.

1.1.1. Fundamental Performance Metrics: Machine Learning Origins

At the core of AI agents' decision-making mechanisms are often machine learning (ML)
models for tasks like classification, regression, or clustering. Therefore, the first step in
deeply understanding an agent's performance is to understand the well-defined metrics
used to evaluate these fundamental ML models.3 These metrics are an indicator of the
agent's basic perceptual and inferential capabilities.

Classification Metrics: These metrics measure an agent's ability to correctly categorize

inputs it receives from its environment or situations it encounters. For example, it is vital for
an autonomous vehicle to correctly classify an object as a "pedestrian," "vehicle," or "traffic
sign."
● Accuracy: The simplest and most commonly used metric. It represents the ratio of
correct predictions (both positive and negative) to the total number of predictions. Its
formula is (TP + TN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN), where TP is True Positive, TN is True Negative,
FP is False Positive, and FN is False Negative. However, it can be misleading in cases of
imbalanced classes (e.g., a medical diagnosis scenario where a disease is rare). A high
accuracy rate can be achieved by the model consistently predicting the majority class,
but this may hide the fact that the model is completely failing to recognize the minority
class.3
● Precision: Measures how many of the instances labeled as positive by the model are
actually positive. Its formula is TP / (TP + FP). Precision is critically important when the
cost of false positives is high. For example, an email spam filter incorrectly marking an
important email as spam (a false positive) can have serious consequences. Similarly, a
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fraud detection agent flagging a legitimate transaction as fraudulent leads to user

dissatisfaction.4
● Recall/Sensitivity: Measures how many of all the actual positive instances were
correctly identified by the model. Its formula is TP / (TP + FN). Recall is prioritized when
the cost of false negatives is high. For example, a negative test result for a patient with
cancer (a false negative) can delay treatment and be life-threatening. Therefore, recall
is often one of the most important metrics in medical diagnostic agents.4
● F1-Score: A measure that strikes a balance between precision and recall, taking their
harmonic mean. Its formula is 2 * (Precision * Recall) / (Precision + Recall). Especially in
datasets with imbalanced classes, it provides a more reliable and holistic performance
indicator than the accuracy metric. The F1-Score is preferred when the costs of both
false positives and false negatives need to be considered in a balanced way.3

Regression Metrics: These metrics measure how accurately an agent predicts a continuous
numerical value (e.g., the estimated duration of a delivery task, the price of a house, the
distance to a target).
● Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE): These metrics take
the average of the squares of the differences between the predicted values and the
actual values. The squaring process gives more weight to large errors, penalizing them
more heavily. RMSE is the square root of MSE and is easier to interpret as it expresses
the error in the same unit as the original data.3
● R-Squared (R²): Indicates what percentage of the variance in the dependent variable
(the value being predicted) the model can explain. Its value ranges from 0 to 1, and the
closer it is to 1, the better the model explains the data. R-squared is used to evaluate
the overall goodness of fit of the model.3
1.1.2. Agent-Specific Task Success Metrics
While fundamental ML metrics provide an idea of the agent's basic capabilities, they do not
directly show whether the agent has achieved its ultimate goal. Agent-specific task success
metrics fill this gap by evaluating the agent's performance in the context of business
objectives and practical applications.6 These metrics seek a clear answer to the question,
"Did the agent complete its task?"
● Task Completion Rate / Success Rate: This is the most fundamental and widely used
metric for measuring the performance of an AI agent. It expresses, as a percentage,
how successfully the agent completes its assigned tasks or goals relative to the total
number of attempts.8 This metric can be defined in various ways depending on the
agent's type and task: the rate at which an autonomous drone delivers a package to the
correct address, the rate at which a chatbot resolves a user issue without human
intervention 10, or the rate at which a search-and-rescue agent finds its target. In
industry standards, this rate is often targeted to be above 85% or 90%, as each
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for human intervention.6

● Error Rate: As a complement to the task completion rate, this metric measures the
percentage of incorrect outputs or failed operations performed by the agent. It is
generally targeted to be kept at a very low level, such as <5%. Analyzing the error rate is
also important for understanding in which types of tasks or conditions the agent
struggles.6
● Step Completion and Agent Trajectory: Especially for agents performing complex,
multi-step tasks (e.g., an agent booking a trip or troubleshooting a complex software
issue), the success of the final outcome alone is not sufficient. The path the agent takes
to reach the goal, i.e., the "trajectory," must also be evaluated.
○ Step Completion: This metric checks whether the agent takes a predefined or
expected series of steps correctly and in the right order. For example, it measures
whether an agent required to follow a specific workflow to solve a task deviates
from this flow.12
○ Agent Trajectory Evaluation: This is a more qualitative measurement that assesses
whether the path taken by the agent is generally "reasonable" and "efficient."
There may be multiple ways to reach a goal; this metric examines whether the path
chosen by the agent is logical. For example, an agent might complete a task, but it
may have done so by taking unnecessarily long or convoluted steps. Detecting such
inefficiencies is critical for improving the agent's planning and reasoning abilities. 12
This analysis reveals the agent's logical consistency and the quality of its problem-
solving strategy.

1.1.3. Efficiency and Resource Usage Metrics

It is important for an agent to successfully complete a task, but how efficiently it does so is
equally critical in terms of its practical applicability and operational cost. Efficiency metrics
measure how effectively the agent uses resources (time, computational power, money),
which directly affects the agent's scalability and economic feasibility.14
● Latency / Response Time: This refers to the time it takes for the agent to produce a
response or action after receiving an input. It is one of the most important metrics,
especially for systems that require real-time interaction with humans (e.g., chatbots
expected to provide a fluent conversation experience) or in situations where a quick
response is vital (e.g., autonomous vehicles that must make decisions in less than a
second to avoid a collision). While industry targets vary by application, for chatbots, it is
generally aimed for under 3 seconds 6, and for systems requiring higher performance,
under 500 milliseconds.8
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can process per unit of time (usually per second). This metric is an indicator of how well
the system can scale under high demand and is particularly important for applications
serving a large number of users.1
● Computational Cost (Cost): Refers to the direct monetary or computational cost of
running an agent. Today, many advanced agents operate by making API calls to
powerful but expensive Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 or
Anthropic's Claude. These APIs are often priced based on the number of tokens used.
Therefore, the number and cost of API calls made to complete a task is a metric that
must be closely monitored for the project's sustainability. If two agents produce
similarly accurate results but one is much more costly than the other, this will be a
decisive factor in the selection process.8
● Token Usage: A specific efficiency metric for LLM-based agents. Tokens are the pieces
of text (words or parts of words) that a language model processes. The more tokens
used to complete a task, the higher both the cost and latency generally are. Therefore,
developers try to minimize token usage by optimizing prompts or reducing the number
of interactions between the agent and the LLM. This is a way to accomplish the same
task with fewer resources.9
● System Resources (CPU/Memory Usage): These are fundamental system metrics that
measure how much processor (CPU) power and memory (RAM) the agent consumes
while running. Continuous monitoring of these metrics is necessary to ensure system
stability, detect resource leaks, and understand how the agent will perform on different
hardware configurations. In industrial applications, warning thresholds are often set for
situations like sustained CPU usage above 80% or memory usage above 90%, which may
indicate that the system is reaching its scalability limits.11

1.1.4. User-Centric and Interactional Metrics

Especially for AI agents that interact directly with humans in areas such as customer service,
personal assistance, or education, technical performance metrics alone are not sufficient.
Even if an agent technically completes its task, the project may be considered a failure if the
user experience is poor. Therefore, metrics that measure users' perceptions of the agent,
their satisfaction, and the quality of interaction are at least as important as technical
metrics.6
● Customer Satisfaction (CSAT): This is a metric that directly measures how positively
users rate their experience after an interaction. It is usually collected through short
surveys presented at the end of the interaction (e.g., "Was this response helpful?" or a
rating from 1-5). CSAT is a direct indicator of the extent to which the agent meets user
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● Net Promoter Score (NPS): A popular metric used to measure user loyalty and overall
satisfaction. Users are asked the question, "How likely are you to recommend this
service to a friend or colleague?" (on a scale of 0-10). This shows not only whether the
agent solved an immediate problem but also whether it created a positive brand
perception.6
● Sentiment Analysis: A technology that automatically analyzes the emotional tone
(positive, negative, neutral) in the text written by users (feedback, chat logs). This
allows for an indirect but scalable way to get an idea of user satisfaction without
conducting direct surveys.6
● Consistency: Measures whether the agent gives consistent responses to similar or
identical inputs at different times. An agent giving response A to a question one day and
response B the next day erodes user trust. Consistency is a fundamental component of
the agent's reliability and predictability. This can be measured by repeatedly sending
similar but slightly varied queries and calculating the statistical variance in the
responses.6
● Knowledge Retention: An important metric, especially for agents that conduct long
conversations. It evaluates the agent's ability to remember information given to it in
earlier stages of the conversation (e.g., the user's name, a previously mentioned
problem) and not ask for the same information again. An agent that cannot retain
information provides a frustrating and "unintelligent" experience. This metric shows
how well the agent manages the conversational context.18

1.1.5. Standard Benchmarking Environments and Platforms

One of the most objective ways to evaluate the performance of an AI agent is to test it on
standardized tasks and environments and compare its results with other agents or previous
versions. This process is called benchmarking.1 Well-designed benchmarking platforms offer
researchers and developers the opportunity to make repeatable, fair, and meaningful
comparisons.19

Classic Control and Reinforcement Learning Environments: These platforms are generally
used to test the fundamental capabilities of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms.
● OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium: This toolkit, which has become a standard in the RL field,
offers a wide variety of simulated environments. These include simple and fast-running
"classic control" tasks like CartPole (balancing a pole on a cart), MountainCar (trying to
reach the top of a hill), and Pendulum (keeping a pendulum upright).20 These tasks are
considered a starting point, like the "MNIST dataset," for testing the basic functionality
of a new RL algorithm. Gym also includes environments like Atari 2600 games, which
require working with more complex visual inputs, and robotic tasks based on the
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MuJoCo physics simulator. Performance in these environments is usually measured by

the "total reward" collected over a certain period, and "solving" a task is often defined
as exceeding a certain average reward threshold over 100 consecutive trials (e.g., 195.0
for
CartPole-v0).23
● Other RL Environments: Beyond Gym, there are also platforms focused on more
specific research areas. For example, the DeepMind Control Suite offers high-precision
simulations for continuous control and robotics tasks using the MuJoCo physics engine.
Microsoft's AirSim platform provides photorealistic 3D simulation environments for
autonomous vehicles and drones, while Unity ML-Agents allows for the creation of rich
and interactive game-based AI training scenarios using the popular Unity game
engine.20

Modern Agent Benchmarking Platforms: With the rise of LLMs, not only the control or
game-playing abilities of agents but also their capabilities in complex reasoning, long-term
planning, and using external tools (APIs, databases, etc.) have gained importance. New
benchmarking platforms have been developed to measure these new-generation
capabilities.19
● AgentBench: A comprehensive evaluation suite designed to test the multi-faceted
capabilities of language model-based agents, such as decision-making, reasoning, and
tool use.1
● τ-bench (tau-bench): Developed by Sierra, this benchmark tests how consistently an
agent adheres to rules, its ability to plan for long-term goals, and especially its ability to
focus on correct information when faced with conflicting facts. This reveals the gap
between agents' laboratory performance and real-world reliability.11
● Real-World Task Simulations: These benchmarks test agents in practical, real-world
scenarios rather than abstract tasks. For example, OSWorld and AppWorld evaluate
agents on tasks within an operating system, such as managing files, sending emails, or
updating spreadsheets. PaperBench measures an agent's ability to read a scientific
paper and reproduce the experiments within it by coding them. Such benchmarks aim
to directly test the practical utility and applicability of agents.19

Infrastructure and Integration Platforms: The performance of agents is also affected by the
cloud and LLM infrastructure they run on. Major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Google Cloud (Vertex AI), and Microsoft Azure offer standardized environments and
tools for the development, deployment, and scaling of agents.26 Platforms like Amazon
Bedrock make different foundation models accessible through a single API, allowing
developers to easily experiment with and compare different LLMs (e.g., OpenAI's GPT-4o,
Anthropic's Claude 4, Google's Gemini 2.5). The performance, latency, and ease of
integration of these models on different platforms are also important benchmarking and
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The following table summarizes some of the standard benchmarking environments

discussed in this section, providing a comparative overview.

Table 1: Comparison of Standard Agent Benchmarking Environments

Platform Developer/Comm Focus Area Environment Key Use Cases

unity Types

Gymnasium Farama General Classic Control, Development and

(OpenAI Gym) Foundation Reinforcement Atari Games, rapid prototyping
(original OpenAI Learning (RL) Simple Physics of basic RL
team) algorithms 20

DeepMind Google DeepMind Advanced High-Precision Academic

Control Suite Continuous Physics research on
Control, Robotics Simulations robotic
(MuJoCo) manipulation and
motor control 20

AirSim Microsoft Autonomous Photorealistic 3D Training and

Systems Simulations testing of
autonomous
vehicles and
unmanned aerial
vehicles (drones)
20

Unity ML-Agents Unity Game-Based AI, 3D Game Engine Game AI

Technologies Interactive Environments development,
Simulation modeling of
complex
interactive
scenarios 20

AgentBench Various Research LLM-Based Agent Multi-Modal, Testing reasoning,

Institutions Evaluation Interactive Tasks planning, and
tool-use
capabilities of
language agents 1

τ-bench (tau- Sierra Long-Term Enterprise Measuring agent

bench) Planning, Rule Environment consistency and
Following Simulations (e.g., reliability under
customer service) conflicting
information 11

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OSWorld / Various Research Real-World Task Operating System Ability of agents

AppWorld Institutions Competence and Application to perform
Simulations practical tasks like
sending emails,
managing
calendars 19

The analysis of these metrics and benchmarking environments reveals a significant trend:
evaluation approaches are evolving in parallel with the increasing autonomy and complexity
of agents. Initially, simple ML metrics measuring a model's basic accuracy were considered
sufficient 3, but as agents took on more complex tasks, the focus of evaluation shifted. Now,
not only "what" the agent does (the result), but also "how" it does it (the trajectory), "at
what cost" (efficiency), and "how it affects the user" (satisfaction) have become critical. This
shows that the search for a single "best" metric is futile; instead, an "evaluation hierarchy"
or "metric stack" should be used.14 At the bottom of this hierarchy is basic model
performance, in the middle are task-specific success and operational efficiency, and at the
top are business impact and user experience. An effective evaluation strategy must
simultaneously monitor multiple metrics at different layers of this stack. This hierarchical
structure also reflects how different stakeholders within an organization—data scientists,
product managers, business leaders—define success with different metrics. A
comprehensive evaluation platform should unify these different perspectives into a single
dashboard, creating a common ground for understanding.6

A similar evolution is observed in benchmarking environments. Evaluation is shifting from

abstract and "sterile laboratory" environments like OpenAI Gym 22, to high-fidelity physical
simulations like

CARLA, and finally to "complex reality" environments like OSWorld that mimic real-world
workflows.19 This transition is a natural consequence of the progression of AI agents towards
practical, applied intelligence. An agent solving the

CartPole task does not mean it can autonomously manage a customer relationship
management (CRM) system.19 The industry wants to know if agents can create value in real
business workflows, not just in the lab. This also changes the definition of "generalization
ability." Generalization no longer just means adapting to new datasets, but also adapting to
new

tasks, new tools, and new environments. This trend is also a reflection of the use of
foundation models as the backbone of agents. The most meaningful way to evaluate agents
built on inherently general-purpose models like GPT-4 is to subject them to diverse and
previously unseen realistic tasks. This indicates that the future paradigm of agent

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development and evaluation is shifting from testing the model itself to testing the model's
higher-level capabilities, such as tool use and planning.2

1.2. Security and Robustness Tests

The performance of artificial intelligence agents must be evaluated not only under average
or ideal conditions but also in unexpected, abnormal, and even malicious situations. Security
and robustness tests aim to measure how reliable, durable, and predictable agents behave
under such challenging conditions. Especially in high-risk areas like autonomous vehicles,
critical infrastructure management, or financial systems, an agent's robustness can be more
vital than its task performance. These tests offer a proactive approach to uncovering the
system's weakest links and preventing potential disasters.

1.2.1. Adversarial Attacks and Security Testing

Adversarial attacks constitute one of the most significant security threats to modern AI
systems. These attacks exploit a fundamental weakness of AI models: their lack of semantic
and contextual understanding like humans, instead relying heavily on statistical patterns and
correlations.30

Definition and Mechanism: An adversarial attack is the act of an attacker adding small,
strategic perturbations to input data (image, text, audio, etc.), often imperceptible to the
human eye or ear, to intentionally mislead an AI model.31 For example, an invisible noise
layer added to the pixels of a "panda" image that causes an image recognition model to
classify it as a "gibbon" with high confidence is such an attack.30

Attack Types: These attacks can be divided into two main categories based on the
environment in which they are carried out:
● Digital Attacks: These attacks are performed entirely in the digital domain. The most
common methods include techniques like the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM),
which uses the model's gradient information to find the most effective perturbation
direction, or more sophisticated attacks like the Carlini & Wagner (C&W) Attack, which
tries to minimize the perturbation while guaranteeing misclassification.30 For text-based
agents, methods such as replacing words with their synonyms, adding invisible
characters, or manipulating prompts to bypass the agent's safety filters are used.
● Physical Attacks: These attacks are carried out by applying digital perturbations to real-
world objects and pose a serious threat, especially for cyber-physical systems like
autonomous vehicles. For example, placing specially designed stickers (adversarial
patches) on a "Stop" sign that are meaningless to human drivers but cause the
autonomous vehicle's camera to perceive the sign as "Speed Limit 80" falls into this
category.34 Similarly, hidden commands can be sent to voice assistants like Siri or Alexa
using sound waves at frequencies inaudible to the human ear.30
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Case Study: Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems: Autonomous driving is one of the
areas where the potential impact of adversarial attacks could be most devastating. A
manipulated road sign could cause the vehicle to make a wrong maneuver, leading to an
accident.30 Research reveals how serious this threat is. It has been shown that not only
camera-based systems but also multi-modal fusion models that combine data from multiple
sensors like cameras and LiDAR can be vulnerable to these attacks. The primary reason for
this is that image data is more easily perturbed than other sensor types, and this
perturbation can affect the fusion process, leading to errors even in 3D perception.35 Recent
studies show that next-generation architectures like Vision Language Models (VLMs) exhibit
natural robustness against adversarial attacks compared to traditional deep neural networks
(DNNs) and can maintain high accuracy rates even without an additional defense
mechanism.37

AI Red Teaming and Adversarial Simulation: To cope with these threats, a proactive security
approach called "AI Red Teaming" has been developed. In this approach, a "red team" of
ethical hackers mimics the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of a real-world
attacker to assault the organization's AI systems.29 This is more comprehensive than
traditional penetration testing. While penetration tests usually focus on known
infrastructure vulnerabilities, AI Red Teaming directly targets the AI model itself: testing its
logical weaknesses, biases, hidden and unintended capabilities, and attempts to bypass its
security protocols through "jailbreak" attempts.29 For example, a red team might try to trick
a financial fraud detection agent into approving a fraudulent transaction as legitimate or
manipulate a customer service agent with social engineering methods to disclose
confidential user data.19 These simulations measure how resilient a system is not only
against known threats but also against creative and unexpected attack vectors.

1.2.2. Robustness and Stress Tests

Robustness refers to how sensitive an AI agent's performance is to non-malicious but
inherent real-world distortions, uncertainties, and unexpected changes.14 An agent may
work perfectly in a lab environment, but its performance can significantly drop when
exposed to real-world "noise." Robustness and stress tests aim to close this "sim-to-real" gap
and ensure the agent's reliability in real-world conditions.
● Test Methods:
○ Testing against Data Distribution Shifts: A model is usually trained on a specific
data distribution. However, this distribution can change over time or in different
geographical locations (e.g., an autonomous vehicle operating in winter conditions
or in a country with different traffic rules). These tests measure how well the
agent's performance is maintained when it encounters data with different statistical
properties from its training data.33
○ Stress Testing with Noisy/Incomplete Inputs: These tests simulate real-world
sensor errors, data transmission losses, or user errors. Techniques such as adding

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random noise to images (Gaussian Noise Injection), randomly corrupting pixels, or

adding typos and grammatical errors to text inputs are used to evaluate how the
agent copes with such flawed inputs.33
○ Edge Case Testing: These tests focus on unusual but plausible scenarios that are
very rare or never encountered in the agent's training data.40 For example, testing
an autonomous vehicle encountering an animal it has never seen before, or a
chatbot dealing with an extremely ambiguous or illogical question. The difficulty of
fully recreating these edge cases once again highlights the importance of
simulation.41
○ Load Testing: This test measures whether the agent or the system hosting it can
maintain its performance under high demand. Using tools like Locust or k6,
thousands of requests per second are sent to API endpoints, and metrics such as
the system's response time (latency), error rate, and resource consumption are
monitored under this load. This is a critical step to verify the system's scalability and
stability.40
● Case Study: Stress Tests in Critical Infrastructures: The integration of AI agents into
critical infrastructures such as power grids, water distribution systems, or
transportation networks creates new systemic risks. Institutions like the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recommend conducting extensive stress tests
to proactively manage these risks.42 These tests focus not only on the behavior of
individual agents but also examine more complex interactions:
1. Model Risks: The degradation of the model's performance over time (model drift).
2. Multi-Agent System Risks: Unexpected and potentially harmful collective behaviors
that can emerge when multiple AI agents with different goals interact. For example,
multiple optimization agents in a power grid acting without coordination with each
other, causing fluctuations or outages in the overall system.42
3. Human-Agent System Risks: Errors and coordination problems that arise when
humans have to work with fast and complex AI systems whose decisions they find
difficult to understand. For example, a grid optimization agent, while optimizing a
narrow goal like "energy saving," might shut down backup generators vital for
emergencies, leading to a greater risk. If the human operator cannot understand
the logic of this decision, they may not be able to intervene in time.43
1.2.3. Defense and Improvement Strategies
Various defense and improvement strategies are available to address the vulnerabilities
identified in security and robustness tests. It is generally accepted that no single technique
offers a perfect solution on its own, and a layered defense approach is most effective.
● Adversarial Training: One of the most common defense methods. It involves including
adversarial examples, generated by attack algorithms, along with their labels in the
model's training dataset. This helps the model gain "immunity" against such
perturbations and become more robust. However, this method has some

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disadvantages: it can often slightly decrease accuracy on clean, unperturbed data and is
generally effective only against known attack types, struggling to generalize to unseen
attacks.30
● Input Validation/Preprocessing: This approach tries to detect and clean potential
perturbations in the inputs before they reach the model. For images, techniques like
image smoothing or noise reduction filters can reduce the effect of adversarial
perturbations. However, if applied excessively, these techniques can also distort
important features of the original input, negatively affecting the model's accuracy.30
● Model Robustness Improvements: These strategies aim to change the model's
architecture or training process to make it less sensitive to small changes in the inputs.
Ensemble Methods reduce dependency on the vulnerabilities of a single model by
combining the predictions of multiple models trained in different ways. Defensive
Distillation aims to hide the gradient information that an attacker could exploit by
"softening" a model's output probabilities and training a simpler model on them.30
● Continuous Monitoring and Feedback Loop: Security and robustness are not a one-
time check; they are a continuous process. The performance metrics of agents running
in a production environment (latency, error rates, resource usage, etc.) should be
continuously monitored with tools like Grafana or Prometheus.40 Anomaly detection
systems can generate alerts when there is an unexpected change in the model's
behavior (e.g., a sudden increase in the error rate for certain types of inputs).
Additionally, collecting and analyzing user feedback is an invaluable source for
identifying edge cases and weaknesses missed in automated tests. This feedback
creates new data points that can be used to improve and retrain the model.14

The analysis of these testing and defense strategies clearly shows that AI security is evolving
from a reactive to a proactive approach. Initially, the focus was on reactive tests, such as
applying a known attack type to measure how "fragile" a model is.30 Now, there is a shift
towards proactive simulations, like

AI Red Teaming, that evaluate a system's overall defense posture and its ability to respond
to unknown threats.29 The primary reason for this evolution is the constantly changing attack
surface and vectors, making defense against only known threats insufficient. This indicates
that AI security is no longer just a "model feature" (e.g., robustness) but has become an
"operational process" that requires continuous monitoring, testing, and improvement.38 This
also necessitates much closer collaboration between traditionally separate security teams
and AI development teams, and the emergence of new specializations like "AI Red
Teamer."29

Another central theme in this area is the impact of the "black box" problem on security and
robustness. The inability to understand the internal workings of deep learning models is both
a fundamental source of vulnerability to adversarial attacks 36 and one of the biggest
obstacles to ensuring reliability.46 When we cannot understand "why" a model made a

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decision, it becomes nearly impossible to systematically detect and correct its weaknesses.
Therefore, Explainable AI (XAI) techniques are of critical importance not just for ethics and
transparency, but directly for security and robustness. Understanding a model's decision
logic can proactively reveal potential vulnerabilities.33 This may encourage a shift in future AI
development from opaque models that purely maximize performance to models that are
inherently more transparent and interpretable. Technologies like digital twins offer a
promising path to provide this explainability by grounding the agent's decisions in the
context of physical cause-and-effect relationships.47

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2.Verification and Validation (V&V) Methods

In the development process of artificial intelligence agents, beyond performance metrics and
robustness tests, there is a need for more in-depth analysis methods that guarantee the
system fully complies with specified requirements and operates as intended. Verification and
Validation (V&V) are two complementary processes aimed at providing this assurance.
Validation seeks to answer the question, "Are we building the right system?", while
Verification focuses on the question, "Are we building the system right?". This chapter
examines two fundamental V&V approaches used to ensure the correctness and reliability of
AI agents before their deployment in the real world: simulation-based testing conducted in
controlled virtual environments and formal verification techniques that offer mathematical
certainty.

2.1. Testing in Simulation Environments

Simulation is an indispensable tool for testing AI agents, especially systems that interact
directly with the physical world, such as autonomous vehicles, robots, or unmanned aerial
vehicles. The high cost, safety risks, and reproducibility challenges of real-world testing have
made simulation an integral part of the development cycle. Simulation offers the ability to
expose agents to a virtually limitless number of scenarios in a safe, controllable, scalable,
and cost-effective manner.

2.1.1. The Role and Importance of Simulation-Based Testing

The role of simulation in the V&V process of AI agents is multifaceted and provides
fundamental advantages to the development process:
● Safety: The most obvious benefit of simulation is ensuring safety. Scenarios that are
excessively dangerous, unethical, or impractical to test in the real world can be tested
repeatedly in a virtual environment without any risk. For example, testing an
autonomous vehicle's reaction to a pedestrian suddenly and unexpectedly darting into
the road, or seeing how the system behaves when a sensor fails, becomes possible
thanks to simulation. This allows developers to safely identify potential problems and
prevent accidents.48
● Cost-Effectiveness and Scalability: Producing physical prototypes, managing test fleets,
and conducting millions of kilometers of test drives in the real world require enormous
cost and time.48 Simulation significantly reduces these costs. With a virtual test fleet,
thousands of different scenarios can be run in parallel on cloud-based platforms within
hours. A new sensor configuration or software update can be quickly tried and its
results analyzed without the need for a physical change. This greatly accelerates the
development cycle.48
● Test Loops (X-in-the-Loop): Simulation is applied at different stages of the development
process with increasing levels of fidelity. This approach often corresponds to a
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testing 51:
○ Software-in-the-Loop (SIL): This is the earliest and most abstract testing phase. The
AI agent's control software is run in a completely virtual environment with
simulated sensor data and a simulated world model. This stage is used to quickly
verify the algorithm's basic logic and decision-making processes.49
○ Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL): In this stage, real hardware components such as
sensors, cameras, and Electronic Control Units (ECUs) are included in the test loop.
This hardware is fed with data from the simulation, and their responses are fed
back into the simulation. HIL testing allows for the verification of the integration
between hardware and software and the hardware's response to real-world signals
at an early stage without a physical prototype.49
○ Vehicle-in-the-Loop (VIL): This is the final bridge between simulation and real-world
testing. A real vehicle (or prototype) is tested on a dynamometer or in a large test
area, while the surrounding traffic, pedestrians, and environment are virtually
simulated. The vehicle's sensors perceive this virtual world, and the vehicle
responds physically. This is a high-fidelity method to verify how the entire system
works in an integrated manner.49

The following table compares these test loops, summarizing their key features and use cases.

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Table 2: Analysis of Simulation-Based Test Loops (X-in-the-Loop)

Test Loop Definition Advantages Disadvantages Typical Use Case

Software-in-the- AI software is Fast, low-cost, Does not fully Verification of

Loop (SIL) tested in a fully scalable, reflect hardware algorithm logic,
virtual applicable in the interactions and control strategies,
environment with early stages of real-time and decision-
simulated development. constraints. making
hardware and processes.49
surroundings.

Hardware-in-the- Real hardware Verifies hardware- More complex Testing the

Loop (HIL) components software and costly to set accuracy and
(sensors, ECUs) integration, tests up, requires response times of
are connected to real-time physical sensors,
a simulated performance. hardware. actuators, and
environment for control units.49
testing.

Vehicle-in-the- A real vehicle is Tests the Very high cost, Final stage
Loop (VIL) tested in a virtual integrated requires complex integration testing
environment performance of infrastructure, of the system and
while maintaining the entire system limited number of verification of
its dynamics. with high fidelity, scenarios can be complex dynamic
reduces the sim- tested. maneuvers.49
to-real gap.

2.1.2. Case Study: CARLA Simulator for Autonomous Driving

One of the most widely used and well-known simulation platforms in the field of
autonomous driving research is CARLA (Car Learning to Act). Being open-source and built on
the popular game engine Unreal Engine gives it high visual fidelity and flexibility.52
● Key Features and Capabilities:
○ Flexible Sensor Modeling: CARLA can model various sensors found in autonomous
vehicles in a physically realistic way. These include RGB cameras, depth cameras,
semantic segmentation cameras (which label each pixel by object class), LiDAR
(laser-based distance measurement), and radar sensors. This provides the
opportunity to train and test perception algorithms with realistic data.48
○ Traffic Manager: One of CARLA's most powerful features is the built-in traffic
manager that dynamically and realistically populates the simulation world. This
module autonomously controls other vehicles and pedestrians, creating a realistic
urban traffic flow that obeys traffic rules, changes lanes, overtakes, and avoids
obstacles. This is vital for testing how the developed agent performs not just in a
static environment, but in a complex and unpredictable dynamic environment.52
○ Scenario Runner: CARLA allows for the execution of predefined or user-created
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scenarios to test specific traffic situations or critical events. The Scenario Runner
tool includes standard scenarios such as lane changing, safe passage through
intersections, and emergency braking, which makes it easy to benchmark the
performance of agents under standardized conditions.52 Furthermore, its
integration with probabilistic programming languages like
Scenic allows for the programmatic generation of more complex, parametric, and
rare edge-case scenarios.56
○ Open Assets and Customization: CARLA offers a rich library of assets, including
different city and rural maps, various vehicle and pedestrian models, and
dynamically changeable weather conditions (sunny, cloudy, rainy, foggy) and time
of day. Thanks to its open-source nature, users can create and integrate their own
maps, vehicles, or sensor models into the simulator.52
● Ecosystem and Integrations: The power of CARLA extends beyond being a standalone
simulator to the rich ecosystem that has developed around it. Through the ROS-bridge,
it can seamlessly integrate with the Robot Operating System (ROS), a standard in the
autonomous systems field. This allows for the direct testing of perception, planning, and
control modules developed based on ROS within CARLA. Similarly, bridges developed
for popular open-source autonomous driving software stacks like Autoware allow for
the holistic simulation of these complex systems. These integrations elevate CARLA
from an isolated tool to a central component of a broader V&V toolchain.54
2.1.3. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) Simulations
Many real-world problems are solved not by a single agent acting in isolation, but by the
interaction of multiple autonomous agents with each other and the environment. Fields such
as smart traffic management, logistics and supply chain optimization, coordination of robot
swarms, and disaster management are examples of such systems.60 MAS simulations are
used to understand and analyze how the behaviors of individual agents in these complex
systems lead to collective and often unpredictable "emergent" system behaviors.60
● Simulation Platforms: There are many platforms developed for MAS modeling and
simulation. Each offers different programming languages, architectures, and focus
areas:
○ JADE (Java Agent Development Framework): A mature and powerful Java-based
platform based on the industry-standard FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical
Agents) communication protocols. It is particularly suitable for modeling complex
organizational behaviors and distributed problem-solving scenarios.62
○ Mesa: A Python-based, modular, and flexible agent-based modeling (ABM)
framework. It is popular, especially in scientific research and education, due to its
easy integration with Python's rich data science libraries (NumPy, Pandas).62
○ NetLogo: Ideal for beginner-level users and educators due to its user-friendly
interface, simple programming language, and powerful visualization tools. It is
widely used for modeling social and ecological systems.62

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○
MASON and Repast: Platforms designed for large-scale and high-performance
simulations, widely used in academic circles. MASON is Java-based and focuses on
speed, while Repast offers multi-language support, including Java, Python, and C#.61
● Application Areas: MAS simulations are used to solve many problems of high practical
value. For example, by modeling traffic lights in smart cities as agents, adaptive traffic
control systems that dynamically adjust their timing based on traffic flow by
communicating with each other can be tested.60 In a natural disaster scenario, by
modeling emergency teams, civilians, and even infrastructure elements (roads, bridges)
as agents, the
effectiveness of different evacuation strategies or the optimal distribution of
emergency resources can be analyzed.60 Similarly, the task allocation and collision
avoidance algorithms of robots working in a warehouse can be developed and
optimized through robot swarm simulations.60
2.1.4. Validation with Digital Twins
The concept of a digital twin goes a step beyond traditional simulation by creating a living,
evolving virtual copy of a physical asset or system that is continuously synchronized with
real-time data.46 It is more than just a model; it is a faithful reflection of its physical
counterpart. This technology offers revolutionary potential for the validation and reliability
enhancement of AI agents.
● Role in Enhancing Reliability:
○ Providing Physical Context: Unlike purely linguistic models like LLMs, digital twins
understand the physical reality of a system (laws of physics, material properties,
engineering constraints). When an AI agent proposes an action, the digital twin can
check whether this action is physically possible and remains within safe limits. This
prevents the agent from "hallucinating" or making physically impossible
suggestions, grounding its decisions in reality.47
○ "What-If" Scenarios: When an agent suggests changing a parameter on a
production line, for example, the consequences of this action can first be safely
simulated on the digital twin. This "what-if" analysis allows for the prediction and
prevention of potential negative outcomes (e.g., a drop in production quality,
equipment failure) before they occur in the real world.46
○ Explainability: One of the biggest challenges of AI agents is their "black box" nature.
It is often unclear why an agent makes a particular decision. Digital twins offer a
powerful framework to alleviate this problem. An agent's decision becomes
explainable in the context of the physical cause-and-effect relationships modeled in
the digital twin, past operational data, and simulated outcomes. This allows human
operators to understand the agent's logic and trust the system.46

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2.1.5. Limitations and Challenges of Simulation

Although simulation is a powerful tool, it is not a panacea and has its own limitations and
challenges. Being aware of these limitations is critical to prevent the dangers that can arise
from over-reliance on simulation results.
● The "Sim-to-Real" Gap: The most fundamental and common challenge is that an agent
that performs perfectly in simulation may unexpectedly fail when transferred to the real
world. This is because simulations can never capture the full complexity, variability, and
unpredictability of the real world with 100% accuracy. Factors like real-world sensor
noise, sudden changes in weather conditions, or the peculiarities of human behavior
may not be fully modeled in simulation.41
● Realism Issues:
○ Sensor Models: Simulated sensor data may struggle to fully reflect the subtle
nuances of real sensors, such as reflections, distortions, artifacts, and failures. This
can cause perception algorithms to perform worse than in simulation.41
○ Environment and Actor Models: The creation of large and detailed virtual
environments (roads, cities, buildings) is still a time-consuming and costly process
that requires significant manual labor.66 More importantly, realistically modeling
the complex, sometimes illogical, and unpredictable behavior of other traffic
participants, especially human drivers and pedestrians, remains one of the biggest
challenges in the AI field.
● Overfitting: An agent runs the risk of overfitting to the specific features and flaws of a
particular simulation environment. In this case, the agent "memorizes" how to solve
tasks within the simulation but fails to generalize what it has learned to real-world
conditions that are slightly different.41
● Lack of Coverage: Even though simulations allow for millions or even billions of
kilometers of testing, it is mathematically impossible to cover all possible scenarios and
edge cases. There is always a possibility of encountering an unforeseen and untested
situation. Therefore, claiming that a system is 100% safe based on simulation results can
create a dangerous and misleading "false sense of security."41 For these reasons,
simulation should be seen not as a replacement for real-world testing, but as a critical
supplement that reduces risk and increases efficiency.41

When examining the role and evolution of simulation, it is clear that it is transforming from a
passive "verification" tool into an active "data generation engine." Tools like NVIDIA's
Cosmos Transfer-1 can generate hundreds of different lighting, weather, and geographical
location variations from a single driving scenario.48 This enables the generation of synthetic
data for rare but critical scenarios where collecting real-world data is difficult or impossible
(e.g., a crash in dense fog at night), thereby training models to be more robust against these
edge cases.48 This creates a cycle that combines testing and training, transforming the role of
simulation from a passive auditor to an active training partner. This approach is a powerful
reflection in the autonomous systems domain of the "Data-Centric AI" philosophy, which
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argues that success depends not only on better models but also on better and more diverse
data. In the future, simulation platforms are expected to become "intelligent data
generation engines" that automatically identify an agent's weakest areas and generate
targeted synthetic data for those areas.

At the same time, it is noteworthy that platforms like CARLA 54 and

Unity ML-Agents 20 are creating rich "ecosystems" that provide integration with third-party
tools like

ROS, Autoware, MATLAB, and Scenic.57 Since an autonomous system is not composed of a
single component and requires the integration of many subsystems like perception,
planning, and control, it is clear that no single simulator can be the best in every area. This
makes modularity and interoperability inevitable. Consequently, the competition among
simulation platforms is shifting from a race to "have the best individual features" to a race to
"have the best integration capabilities and the widest ecosystem." The value of a simulator is
now measured less by what it can do on its own and more by how seamlessly it can
communicate with other industry-standard tools. This trend increases the importance of
open standards like

OpenDRIVE and OpenSCENARIO and predicts that the future V&V workflow will be a
"toolchain" of best-of-breed tools connected through these standards.

2.2. Formal Verification Techniques

While simulation and empirical testing play a critical role in building confidence by showing
how a system behaves in numerous scenarios, they cannot guarantee that the system will
not violate certain safety properties in all possible situations. This guarantee is indispensable,
especially for safety-critical systems like autonomous train control systems, medical devices,
or nuclear power plant controls, where a single error can lead to catastrophic consequences.
Formal verification fills this gap by providing mathematical proof that a system's behavior
conforms to a specific specification (requirement). Where testing can show the presence of
errors, formal verification aims to prove their absence.67

2.2.1. Introduction to Formal Methods and Their Necessity

Formal verification involves creating an abstract mathematical model of a system and
exhaustively analyzing its state space to prove that it meets specific correctness and safety
properties.68 This approach, unlike the sampling-based nature of testing and simulation,
covers all possible inputs and execution paths.

Its necessity arises from the increasing complexity of autonomous systems. Millions of lines
of code, a continuous stream of data from multiple sensors, the stochastic nature of
learning-based components, and dynamic interaction with the environment make it
impossible to test all possible scenarios. Especially in applications like autonomous vehicles
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or aircraft control systems, statistical assurances (e.g., "the system is 99.999% reliable") are
not sufficient, because that 0.001% margin of error could cost human lives. Therefore,
mathematical proofs that can offer absolute guarantees like "this collision will never
happen" or "the braking system will always have priority" are needed.71

2.2.2. Model Checking

Model checking is one of the most common and automated techniques of formal
verification. It essentially algorithmically checks whether a finite model of a system satisfies
a property expressed in temporal logic.
● Process: The model checking process typically consists of three main steps 67:
1. System Modeling: The system to be verified (e.g., a traffic light controller or a
train's braking system) is converted into a formal mathematical structure such as a
finite state machine, Kripke structure, or timed automata. This model defines all
possible states of the system and the transitions between these states.
2. Property Specification: The property or requirement that the system must satisfy is
expressed in a formal language, such as temporal logic. For example, a safety
property like "The traffic light can never be green for both north-south and east-
west directions at the same time," or a liveness property like "A vehicle requesting
a green light will eventually get a green light."
3. Verification: A model checking algorithm systematically traverses all accessible
states of the system model and checks whether the specified property holds in each
state. If the algorithm finds a state where the property is violated, it reports the
sequence of events leading to this violation as a "counterexample." This
counterexample is an extremely valuable debugging tool for developers to find and
fix the source of the error.67
● Challenge: State-Space Explosion: The biggest practical challenge of model checking is
the state-space explosion. As the number of parallel components, variables, or counters
in the system increases, the total number of possible states of the system increases
exponentially. This can make it computationally impossible to explore and store all
states.67 To cope with this problem, advanced techniques such as
abstraction, which creates a smaller model by removing unnecessary details of the
system, or compositional reasoning, which breaks the system into components, verifies
each one separately, and combines the results, are used.70
2.2.3. Expressing Properties with Temporal Logic
Temporal logic is a formal language used to reason about propositions that change over
time. In model checking, it is used to express the complex behavioral requirements expected
from systems in a precise and unambiguous way.74
● Basic Operators: Temporal logic includes temporal operators in addition to standard
logical operators (AND, OR, NOT) 77:
○ G (Globally) or □ (Box): Means "always." The expression G(p) means "the
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proposition p is true at all future times."

○ F (Finally) or ◊ (Diamond): Means "eventually" or "sooner or later." The expression
F(p) means "the proposition p will be true at least at one point in the future."
○ X (Next): Means "at the next time step." The expression X(p) means "in the next
state, the proposition p is true."
○ U (Until): Means "until." The expression p U q means "the proposition p remains
true until the proposition q becomes true."
● Types of Logic: There are two main types of temporal logic based on different
assumptions about the structure of time:
○ Linear Temporal Logic (LTL): Models time as a single, non-branching future path.
LTL formulas are evaluated separately along each possible execution path (trace) of
the system. It is generally used to express properties that must occur in all possible
futures, such as "when a request is made, this request is always eventually
granted."74
○ Computation Tree Logic (CTL): Models time as a branching tree where there are
multiple possible futures at each state. This allows for the combination of path
quantifiers (A: "for all future paths," E: "for at least one future path") with temporal
operators. For example, AG(p) means "for all future paths, p is always true," while
EF(p) means "there is at least one path where it is possible to reach a future where
p is true." CTL allows for more complex statements about the potential or
inevitability of the system.74

These logics are used to mathematically express a safety property like "an autonomous train
should never move forward (!move_forward) when it detects a signal error (signal_error)" as
G(signal_error ->!move_forward), or a liveness property like "when a health diagnostic agent
makes a diagnosis (make_diagnosis), it must eventually also provide the rationale for this
diagnosis (provide_rationale)" as G(make_diagnosis -> F(provide_rationale)). 78

2.2.4. Case Study: Verification of Autonomous Train Control Systems (ETCS)

One of the most important case studies demonstrating the real-world power of formal
verification is the verification of the European Train Control System (ETCS). ETCS is a highly
safety-critical, standardized system across Europe that supervises the speed of trains,
ensures they comply with signals, and thus prevents collisions.79
● Context and Challenge: ETCS is a hybrid system that includes both discrete control logic
(decisions like apply brake, accelerate) and continuous physical dynamics (the train's
movement, speed, acceleration, braking distance). The safety of this system depends
not only on the correctness of the control software but also on physical parameters like
the train's mass, gradient, friction, and the controller's ability to make the right
decisions in time based on these parameters.
● Application: Researchers formulated the control logic and physical dynamics of ETCS as
a hybrid automaton model combined with differential equations. Fundamental safety

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properties like "two trains should never collide" were expressed in a language called
differential dynamic logic (dL), which can describe the behavior of this hybrid system.81
● Results: Using a theorem proving tool like KeYmaera, it was mathematically proven that
the system is safe not only under specific fixed parameters but for all situations where
the free parameters are within certain ranges. The verification process not only proved
the system's safety but also discovered the precise constraints that system parameters
(e.g., the relationship between maximum speed and braking power) must satisfy to
guarantee safety. This analysis showed that the system maintains its safety even in the
presence of external disturbances like friction.81 This case study is a powerful example
showing that formal methods can verify not only software logic but also the interaction
of software with the complex physical world, and can even guide safe design.
2.2.5. Scalability and Future Directions
The biggest obstacle to formal verification is the scalability problem encountered when
applied to complex and large-scale AI systems, especially deep neural networks, which can
contain millions or even billions of parameters.83 The "black box" nature, stochastic
behavior, and complex non-linear functions of deep learning models make them extremely
difficult to analyze directly with traditional model checking techniques.36

To overcome these challenges, the research community is working on various innovative

approaches:
● Abstraction and Approximation: This approach aims to "over-approximate" the
behavior of a complex neural network with a simpler model (e.g., linear inequalities or
intervals) that is easier to verify. If the abstract model is safe, it is guaranteed that the
original complex model is also safe. However, this method can sometimes produce false
positives due to over-approximation (i.e., labeling a safe system as unsafe).85
● Verified AI Initiative: Projects of this kind at leading institutions like the University of
California, Berkeley, are developing toolkits specifically designed for the formal analysis
of systems containing AI and ML components. For example, the VerifAI software kit
facilitates the testing and analysis of systems with ML components, while probabilistic
programming languages like Scenic allow for the formal definition and analysis of
complex and uncertain environments and scenarios.86
● AI-Assisted Verification: This is a new and exciting paradigm where AI is used to verify
itself. For example, the Saarthi project aims to develop a fully autonomous "AI formal
verification engineer" that leverages the natural language and code understanding
capabilities of LLMs to read a hardware design specification document, create the
necessary verification plan, write the verification code (assertions), and even analyze
counterexamples.68 This could automate and scale the formal verification process.

These developments in the field of formal verification indicate that the nature of the process
is changing. Traditionally, formal verification was seen as a passive inspection tool used to
"check if a design is correct" after it was completed.69 However, as seen in the ETCS case
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study 81, this process is now also being used to "discover what the correct design should be."
Formal analysis can not only verify an existing design but also reveal the critical parameter
constraints and the safety envelope required for the system to remain safe. This shows that
formal verification is evolving from a passive auditor to an active "design partner" that
supports the "correct-by-construction" philosophy.86 In the future, it is expected that AI
development environments will run continuous formal analyses in the background as a
developer writes code, providing real-time feedback on situations that could lead to safety
violations and catching errors at the design stage.

The heterogeneous and distributed nature of modern autonomous systems (white-box and
black-box components from different suppliers) 72 makes holistic verification practically
impossible. To overcome this challenge, the

"Assume-Guarantee" principle emerges as a key solution. In this approach, instead of

verifying the entire system as a single piece, each component is defined by a "contract":
what inputs or conditions it expects from the rest of the system (assumptions) and what
behaviors it will provide to the rest of the system when these assumptions are met
(guarantees). This way, the correct operation of the entire system can be proven by checking
only whether they comply with these contracts, without knowing the internal workings of
each component.72 This modular approach lays the foundation for creating a reliable "supply
chain" for autonomous systems and allows for the safe integration of AI components from
different suppliers. This is not just a technical advancement but also a business model
transformation that technically enables visions like a "Verified Autonomy Store" 73 and could
trigger the formation of a market for verifiable, interoperable AI components.

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Conclusion
This report has comprehensively analyzed the multi-layered, interdisciplinary, and
increasingly complex nature of the testing, evaluation, verification, and validation processes
for artificial intelligence agents. The findings clearly demonstrate that developing reliable,
robust, and verifiable AI agents is not possible with a single "silver bullet" methodology, but
rather requires a holistic and heterogeneous approach. This approach must encompass a
broad "evaluation spectrum," ranging from empirical metrics that measure the agent's basic
task performance and efficiency, to adversarial attack and stress tests that push the system's
resilience limits, to high-fidelity simulations that model complex agent interactions and
emergent behaviors, and finally to formal verification techniques that provide mathematical
certainty and guarantees for behaviors in safety-critical systems.

The analyses have shown that evaluation paradigms are evolving in parallel with the
increasing autonomy and complexity of AI agents. Metrics have transformed into a hierarchy
extending from simple model accuracy to the efficiency of the agent's trajectory and user
satisfaction. Benchmarking environments have shifted from abstract laboratory problems to
real-world task simulations that measure the practical capabilities of agents. Security testing
has evolved from reactive defenses against known threats to proactive "AI Red Teaming"
operations aimed at discovering unknown vulnerabilities. Simulation has transformed from a
passive testing tool into an active training partner that generates synthetic data to make
models more robust. Most importantly, formal verification is evolving from a post-design
check into a design guide that supports the "correct-by-construction" philosophy for safe
systems.

The successful AI systems of the future will undoubtedly be not those with the highest task
completion rates or the most advanced algorithmic capabilities, but those that have
successfully passed through this multi-layered V&V (Verification and Validation) process,
whose behaviors are predictable, whose operational limits are well-defined, and whose
reliability has been proven even under the most challenging, unexpected, and malicious
conditions. This necessitates a fundamental mindset shift in AI development culture, from an
approach focused solely on performance optimization to a rigorous engineering discipline
that places safety, robustness, transparency, and verifiability at its core from the very
beginning. This discipline will be the cornerstone for the societal acceptance and full
realization of the potential of AI technology.

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8.Development Methodologies for Artificial Intelligence

Agents
Introduction
This unit comprehensively covers the fundamental methodologies, architectures, and
practices that govern the entire process from the conceptualization, design, development,
and deployment of artificial intelligence agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) to their
management throughout their operational lifecycle. The autonomous, proactive, reactive,
and social nature of AI agents necessitates specialized approaches that go beyond traditional
software engineering paradigms. This requirement has led to the emergence of a specialized
discipline known as Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). AOSE focuses on modeling
systems not as a collection of passive objects or procedures, but as a "community" of
autonomous entities that reason, communicate, and collaborate to achieve their goals.

The analysis in this section will be structured around two main axes. First, under the heading
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, the design decisions that form the structural
foundation of an agent system and the methodological processes that guide these decisions
will be examined. In this context, the fundamental architectural paradigms that shape
agents' decision-making mechanisms (reactive, deliberative, hybrid), cognitive models
(especially the Belief-Desire-Intention model), behavior control patterns (state machines and
behavior trees), and architectural patterns specific to modern, Large Language Model (LLM)-
based systems will be discussed with technical details. Subsequently, classic AOSE
methodologies such as Gaia, Tropos, and Prometheus, which place these designs within a
systematic framework, and development platforms like JADE that support these
methodologies, will be examined in detail through real-world case studies.

Second, under the heading Deployment and Lifecycle Management, the transition of an
agent from the development phase to operational reality and its management in this process
will be addressed. In this context, the "sim2real" gap, which is the main challenge in
transferring success from a simulation environment to real-world systems, and the
engineering solutions to overcome this gap will be discussed. The role of distributed
architectures such as cloud and edge computing in agent deployment, and the importance of
containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) technologies in scaled deployment
will be explained through concrete scenarios like an autonomous drone fleet. Finally, the
post-deployment life of an agent, including processes for continuous monitoring, tracking
performance with telemetry data, correcting errors, and updating its capabilities to adapt to
changing conditions, will be covered. This part constitutes the intersection of modern MLOps
(Machine Learning Operations) practices with AOSE, including continuous learning
strategies, model drift detection, versioning, and backward compatibility.

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Throughout this unit, theoretical concepts will be concretized with recurring case studies
such as an intelligent personal assistant, an autonomous mobile robot, a multi-agent traffic
simulation, an autonomous drone fleet, and a chatbot that learns from user interactions.
The aim is to present the development of artificial intelligence agents not just as a coding
activity, but also as a deep engineering discipline, an architectural art, and an operational
science.

8.1.Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) offers a systematic approach to the analysis,
design, and implementation of agents—autonomous, proactive, and social software
entities—and the multi-agent systems (MAS) they form. Unlike traditional object-oriented
programming (OOP), which views objects as passive entities awaiting method calls, AOSE
treats agents as autonomous beings capable of acting independently based on their internal
states and goals.1 This fundamental philosophical difference necessitates the use of agent-
specific abstractions and methodologies at every stage of the software development
process, from requirements analysis to architectural design and implementation. This
section delves into the core engineering approaches used in transforming an agent or MAS
from conceptualization to a working prototype. The focus is not only on ensuring the system
performs its immediate tasks but also on the structural design decisions and methodological
processes that ensure it is scalable, sustainable, and maintainable in the long run. To this
end, we will first examine the design patterns and architectures that define the internal
decision-making mechanisms of agents and their system-level organization. Subsequently,
we will explore the development processes and tools that systematically bring these designs
to life.

8.1.1: Design Patterns and Architectures

The unique patterns and architectures used in the software design of artificial intelligence
agents play a critical role in the flexibility, scalability, and maintainability of systems. The
chosen architectural paradigm answers fundamental questions such as how an agent will
perceive its environment, interpret these perceptions, decide on its goals, and select actions
to achieve them. This sub-topic covers a broad spectrum, from reactive and deliberative
architectures that structure an agent's basic decision-making loop, to cognitive architectures
like BDI that model human-like reasoning; from patterns like state machines and behavior
trees used to control behaviors, to multi-agent collaboration models specific to modern LLM-
based systems. These architectural choices directly shape the final capabilities and
performance characteristics of the system.

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Basic Architectural Paradigms: Reactive, Deliberative, and Hybrid

The most fundamental classification of agent architectures is based on the complexity of
their decision-making processes and their speed of interaction with the environment. At the
two ends of this classification are reactive architectures, based on instantaneous reflexes,
and deliberative architectures, based on comprehensive reasoning. Hybrid architectures, on
the other hand, attempt to combine the strengths of these two approaches.

Reactive Architectures

Reactive architectures focus on an agent's ability to respond directly and quickly to its
current environmental perceptions. Instead of creating a complex internal world model or
long-term future plans, these agents act according to a predefined set of condition-action
rules.2 The basic operating principle is based on a "stimulus-response" mechanism; the agent
receives a stimulus (sensor data) from the environment and instantly performs a pre-coded
action corresponding to that stimulus.4
● Technical Details: Their simplest forms are known as "Simple Reflex Agents," and their
decision mechanisms are typically in an if-condition-then-action structure. These agents
are often considered "stateless" because they do not base their decisions on past
experiences or internal state information, focusing only on the current perception.4 This
simplicity makes them extremely computationally efficient and suitable for real-time
operations. Their fast response times make them ideal for basic safety and survival
functions in dynamic and unpredictable environments. However, this simplicity comes
at a cost: limited adaptability. When environmental conditions fall outside the scope of
predefined rules, reactive agents can become ineffective.3
● Example Application (Autonomous Robot): Let's consider an autonomous mobile robot
working in a warehouse. When a person suddenly appears in front of the robot, the
data from the robot's infrared or lidar sensors triggers the "close-range obstacle"
condition. The reactive architecture activates the "emergency stop" action associated
with this condition within milliseconds. The robot does not consider higher-level
questions like "where am I in the warehouse?" or "how will I complete my task?" when
making this decision. Its sole focus is to react instantly to the immediate danger. This is
an indispensable behavior for the basic safety of the system.

Deliberative (or Planner) Architectures

Unlike reactive agents, deliberative (or reasoning) agents conduct a conscious "thinking"
process to achieve their goals. These agents maintain an explicit and symbolic internal world
model, predict the future consequences of their potential actions, and create the most
suitable sequence of actions (a plan) to achieve their goals.3
● Technical Details: These architectures heavily utilize areas of artificial intelligence such
as planning, search algorithms (like A*), logical reasoning, and decision theory.4 They

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have a "stateful" structure, meaning they retain past actions and changes in the
environment's state in their memory to shape future decisions accordingly. This
complex reasoning process gives them the ability to successfully complete strategic and
complex tasks. However, this capability comes with a higher computational cost and
slower response times. Therefore, deliberative agents may not be suitable on their own
for situations requiring immediate and rapid responses.4
● Example Application (Autonomous Robot): Returning to the same autonomous
warehouse robot example, the robot's task is to pick up a package at point A and place
it on a shelf at point B. The deliberative architecture uses its internal map data (world
model) to perform this task. It analyzes all possible routes between points A and B,
considering obstacles, restricted areas, and path lengths to calculate the most efficient
(shortest or fastest) route. As a result, it produces a plan consisting of a series of
movement commands (e.g., "move forward 10 meters," "turn 90 degrees right," "move
forward 5 meters"). This process is not an instantaneous reaction but a conscious
planning action aimed at a goal.

Hybrid Architectures

Hybrid architectures acknowledge the inherent trade-off in reactive and deliberative

approaches (speed and simplicity versus intelligence and strategy) and aim to combine the
best aspects of both worlds.6 These architectures are designed to enable an agent to both
react quickly to immediate dangers and intelligently advance towards its long-term goals.2
● Technical Details: The most common hybrid approach is the layered architecture. In
this structure, the agent's decision-making process is divided into layers with different
levels of abstraction.7
○ Reactive Layer (Lower Layer): Usually located at the bottom, it has direct access to
raw sensor data. Its task is to manage basic, vital, and fast-response behaviors like
collision avoidance.10
○ Deliberative Layer (Upper Layer): Located at the top, it operates on a more
abstract world model. It is responsible for cognitive tasks such as task planning,
strategy formulation, and achieving long-term goals.7
○ Sequencing/Executive Layer (Middle Layer): Sometimes, an intermediate layer is
present to translate abstract plans from the upper layer into more concrete actions
that the lower layer can understand.7

The interaction between these layers allows the system to be both reactive and
proactive. For example, while the upper layer is planning a route, the lower layer
can instantly avoid an obstacle that suddenly appears while following that route.11
This structure minimizes the weaknesses of both paradigms (the aimlessness of
reactive architecture and the slowness of deliberative architecture).12 Pioneering
hybrid architectures like AuRA (Autonomous Robot Architecture) have
demonstrated the effectiveness of this layered approach.10
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The following table summarizes the key features and differences between these two
fundamental architectural paradigms.

Table 8.1.1-A: Comparative Architectural Analysis: Reactive vs. Deliberative

Feature Reactive Agent Deliberative Agent

Decision-Making Process Instantaneous response based on Goal-oriented strategic decision-

current perceptions and simple, making based on planning,
predefined rules.3 search, and reasoning.4

World Model No explicit internal world model, Maintains and updates a

or a very limited one.4 symbolic internal model of the
environment.4

Memory Generally stateless; does not Stateful; remembers past actions

consider past events.5 and observations.4

Response Time Very fast, near real-time.3 Slower, as planning and

reasoning take time.4

Adaptability Limited; can only adapt to High; can change its plans and
predefined situations.3 learn to adapt to new situations.4

Complexity Simple; easy to implement and Complex; requires advanced

computationally inexpensive.4 algorithms and more
computational resources.4

Suitable Environments Dynamic, unpredictable More static or predictable

environments requiring fast environments with complex tasks
responses (e.g., obstacle requiring strategic planning (e.g.,
avoidance).3 route optimization).4

Cognitive Architectures: Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) Model

Among the architectures developed for artificial intelligence agents, the Belief-Desire-
Intention (BDI) model holds a special place due to its success in modeling the human
practical reasoning process. Inspired by the theories of philosopher Michael Bratman, this
model treats agents not just as programmed entities, but as rational actors with mental
states.13 This approach provides a powerful conceptual framework for understanding the
"reasons" behind an agent's behavior and is particularly suitable for agents operating in
complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments.
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Detailed Analysis of Components

The BDI architecture defines the agent's mental state with three fundamental components:
Beliefs, Desires, and Intentions.1
● Beliefs: Represent an agent's knowledge state about the world. These are factual pieces
of information that the agent believes to be true about itself, other agents, and the
environment.13 Beliefs do not have to be a perfect copy of reality; they can be
incomplete or incorrect. For example, a personal assistant agent might have the belief
that "the user has a meeting at 2:00 PM on their calendar." These beliefs are not static;
the agent continuously updates and revises its beliefs as it perceives the environment
(e.g., upon receiving an email that the meeting has been canceled).16 This belief base
forms the foundation of the agent's reasoning process.
● Desires: Represent the agent's motivational state, i.e., the goals it wishes to achieve or
the world states it prefers.13 Desires correspond to questions of "what could be" or
"what should be." An agent can have multiple, even conflicting, desires at the same
time.1 For example, an autonomous vehicle may have both the desire to "reach the
destination as quickly as possible" and the desire to "minimize fuel consumption."
These desires serve as a starting point for determining the agent's potential courses of
action but do not yet involve a commitment.
● Intentions: Represent the plans or strategies that the agent has adopted and
committed to executing in order to fulfill one or more of its desires.13 Intentions are the
result of a choice made from among desires and allow the agent to focus its resources
(time, computational power, etc.) on a specific goal. The transformation of a desire into
an intention means that the agent will actively strive to achieve that goal. This
commitment brings stability to the agent's decision-making process; the agent does not
easily adopt new desires or actions that conflict with its current intentions, which
prevents it from constantly changing its mind.1 For example, when the autonomous
vehicle turns the desire for the "fastest route" into an intention, it begins to implement
a specific plan for that goal (e.g., the plan to use the highway).

Deliberation Cycle

Instead of following a static program, BDI agents operate through a continuously running
reasoning or deliberation cycle. This cycle allows the agent to dynamically manage its mental
states and typically includes the following steps 14:
1. UPDATEEVENTS: At the beginning of the cycle, the agent updates its event queue,
which contains new perceptions from the external world and internal events from the
previous cycle (e.g., the creation of a new subgoal).14
2. UPDATEBELIEFS: The agent revises its Belief Base using the new perceptions in the
event queue. This ensures that the agent's knowledge about the world remains
current.14

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3. Goal Generation: Based on its current beliefs and fundamental motivations (desires),
the agent generates potential goals or options it can achieve.13 This stage seeks to
answer the question, "what do I want to do?"
4. SELECTPLANS and Intention Formation: The agent decides which of the generated
options to pursue. This deliberation process involves evaluating the feasibility, priority,
and compatibility of goals with other intentions. The selected goals become the
"intentions" to which the agent is committed. The agent then selects an appropriate
plan from its plan library to realize these intentions.14 This stage answers the question,
"how will I do this?"
5. EXECUTEINTENTION: The agent executes the next step of its chosen plan. This could be
either performing an action in the environment or creating a new subgoal and adding it
to the event queue as an internal event.14

This cycle repeats continuously, allowing the BDI agent to both react to changes in its
environment (through belief updates) and work proactively towards its goals (through
intention execution).20
● Example Application (Intelligent Personal Assistant): A user's intelligent personal
assistant receives the command, "Schedule an appointment with Dr. Aydın for
tomorrow afternoon."
○ Beliefs: The assistant's beliefs include the user's calendar, Dr. Aydın's clinic contact
information, and the clinic's operating hours.
○ Desire: The primary desire is to "schedule an appointment with Dr. Aydın."
○ Intention Formation: The assistant turns this desire into an intention. It selects the
"schedule appointment" plan from its plan library. This plan might include steps like
"call the clinic," "ask for available times," "check the user's calendar," and "confirm
the appointment."
○ Cycle and Adaptation: When the assistant calls the clinic (action), it learns that Dr.
Aydın is not available tomorrow afternoon (new perception). This new information
leads to a belief update: "Dr. Aydın is not available tomorrow." This situation means
the current intention (scheduling for tomorrow afternoon) is no longer feasible. The
agent reconsiders its intention (intention reconsideration) and switches to a
different plan, such as asking the user for alternative times or creating a new
intention for another day. This demonstrates the flexibility and adaptation
capability of the BDI model.
Behavior Control Patterns: State Machines and Behavior Trees
Once an agent's general architecture (reactive, deliberative, or BDI) is determined, the
question arises of how to organize the behaviors within this architecture and how to manage
the transitions between them. At this point, two fundamental patterns, widely used
especially in fields like robotics and game AI, stand out: Finite State Machines (FSMs) and
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agent's action selection logic and involve significant trade-offs in terms of complexity,
modularity, and extensibility.

Finite State Machines (FSMs)

An FSM is a well-established model derived from computation theory, used to model the
behavior of a system or agent.21 Its fundamental principle is that an agent can be in only one
of a finite number of states at any given time. Transitions between states are triggered by
specific events or conditions, and these transitions are explicitly defined.
● Structure and Operation: An FSM consists of a set of states (e.g., "Patrol," "Follow
Target," "Attack," "Flee"), a starting state, and the conditions that trigger transitions
between states. For example, if a security robot is in the "Patrol" state and detects an
enemy ("enemy seen" condition), it transitions to the "Follow Target" state. Each state
typically contains three types of logic: OnEnter (runs once upon entering the state),
OnUpdate (runs every cycle while the state is active), and OnExit (runs once upon
exiting the state).22
● Advantages and Disadvantages: The biggest advantage of FSMs is their simplicity. They
are extremely easy to understand and implement for behaviors with a small number of
states.22 However, as the complexity of the system increases, FSMs can quickly become
unmanageable. When a new state is added, the logic of all existing states that can
transition to or from this new state may need to be updated. This can lead to a problem
known as "state explosion" and causes the code to be scattered in different places,
making maintenance and debugging difficult.23 The connections between states become
tightly coupled.22

Behavior Trees (BTs)

Behavior Trees emerged as a response to the scalability problems of FSMs, offering a

modular and hierarchical decision-making model. Unlike an FSM, BTs separate the state from
the transition logic. Behaviors are defined in "leaf nodes" of the tree structure, while
"composite nodes" control when and in what order these behaviors are executed.24
● Structure and Operation: A BT consists of nodes arranged hierarchically, starting from a
root node. The system periodically "ticks" the tree. With each tick, execution starts from
the root and proceeds down the tree. Each node returns one of three states upon
completion of execution: Success, Failure, or Running (if the action requires more than
one tick).21
● Node Types:
○ Action Nodes: Represent a concrete action the agent will perform (e.g., "Shoot,"
"Open Door").
○ Condition Nodes: Check a state (e.g., "Is Enemy in Sight?", "Is Health Low?") and
return Success if true, Failure if false.
○ Composite Nodes: Control flow nodes that execute their child nodes according to a
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specific logic. The most common are:

■ Sequence: Executes its child nodes in order. It stops and returns Failure if a
child node returns Failure. If all child nodes return Success, it returns Success.21
This is similar to "AND" logic.
■ Selector / Fallback: Executes its child nodes in order. It stops and returns
Success if a child node returns Success. If all child nodes return Failure, it
returns Failure.21 This is similar to "OR" logic.
○ Decorator Nodes: Have a single child node and modify its behavior (e.g., inverting
an action, repeating it a certain number of times, or trying until successful).
● Advantages Over FSMs: The greatest strength of BTs is modularity and reusability.
Since each behavior is defined as a small, independent node, these nodes can be easily
reused in different trees or different branches of the same tree. Expanding a tree is
often as simple as adding a new branch or node without disrupting the existing
structure. This largely solves the problems of state explosion and tight coupling in FSMs
and allows for the design of complex behaviors in a more manageable way.23

The following table compares these two behavior control patterns based on practical
engineering criteria.

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Table 8.1.1-B: Behavior Control Comparison: FSM vs. Behavior Trees

Criterion Finite State Machine (FSM) Behavior Tree (BT)

Core Concept The system can only be in one A hierarchical node tree is
state at a specific time. periodically "ticked" to make
Transitions are triggered by decisions.23
conditions.21

Modularity Low. States and transitions are High. Each behavior or condition
tightly coupled. The logic of a is a reusable and independent
state is often not centralized.22 node.24

Scalability Weak. As the number of states High. New behaviors can be easily
increases, the complexity of integrated by adding new
transitions grows exponentially branches to the tree.23
("state explosion").22

Extensibility Difficult. Adding a new state may Easy. Adding or removing a node
require changing the transition from the tree usually requires
logic of many existing states.24 minimal code changes.23

Reusability Limited. States are difficult to High. Behavior nodes (e.g., "Find
reuse in other contexts because Path") can be easily reused in
they are tightly integrated with different trees and scenarios.
specific transition logic.

Debugging In complex FSMs, it can be Due to its visual and hierarchical

difficult to follow the logic flow nature, it is generally easier to
and find errors.24 track why a behavior failed.23

Performance Cost Generally lower. Only the logic of Potentially higher. A part of the
the current state is executed.22 tree is re-evaluated at each
"tick".22

System-Level Architectural Patterns

Beyond the internal logic of a single agent, how the agent system as a whole is structured is
also a significant design decision. This is particularly true for systems with multiple agents or
complex functionality layers. System-level architectural patterns define how responsibilities
are separated between components, how communication flows, and how the system is
organized overall.

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Layered Architectures

Layered architecture is a widely used approach in software engineering that divides a system
into horizontal layers with different levels of responsibility to manage complexity.9 This
approach is also highly effective in agent systems. Each layer operates at a specific level of
abstraction and communicates only with the layers directly above and below it. This ensures
separation of concerns, making the system more modular, understandable, and
maintainable.9

In the example of an intelligent personal assistant (IPA), a typical layered architecture might
look like this 25:
1. Client/Presentation Layer: Contains the interface with which the user directly interacts.
This includes components for speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and the
user interface (UI).25
2. Dialog/Business Layer: Houses the core logic of the system. Cognitive tasks such as
Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Dialog Management, and Natural Language
Generation (NLG) take place in this layer.25
3. Data/External Services Layer: Manages access to external information and services that
the system needs. This may include access to databases, external APIs (weather, flight
reservations, etc.), or even other intelligent assistants.25

Even futuristic concepts like PiA (Personal Intelligent Assistant) designed by LAYER extend
this layered thinking to a more physical plane. PiA consists of a hardware layer that collects
data with sensors (biometric earbuds, camera), a logic layer that processes and makes sense
of this data (AI core), and a presentation layer that interacts with the user (smartphone
interface, avatar).27 This shows that layered architecture is a powerful abstraction tool not
only in software but also in hardware-software integration.

LLM-Centric Agentic Architectures

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the development of new and
powerful patterns in agent architectures. In these architectures, the LLM is not just a text
generator but also the decision-making and reasoning center of the system.31
● Single Agent Architecture: This is the most basic model. A central LLM accesses a set of
tools to complete a task. The agent performs an action (usually by calling a tool),
observes the result, and reasons on this result to decide its next step.31 This architecture
is ideal for open-ended tasks that do not have a structured workflow.33
● Supervisor/Hierarchical Architecture: This model is similar to the management
hierarchy of a medium or large company.32 A "supervisor" or "orchestrator" agent takes
a complex task, breaks it down into smaller sub-tasks, and distributes these sub-tasks to
"worker" or sub-agents with the appropriate expertise.32 The supervisor coordinates the
work of the sub-agents and combines the results to form the final response. This
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increases efficiency through task decomposition and specialization.

● Multi-Agent Collaboration: This is the most advanced model and describes systems
where multiple autonomous agents work together to achieve a common goal. These
agents can have different roles and specializations and negotiate, coordinate, and
collaborate to reach the goal.31 For example, in a task to create a multimedia story, one
agent might write the script, another designs the characters, a third produces the
visuals, and another composes the music.31

Modern Design Patterns

A series of practical design patterns have emerged to increase the effectiveness of these
LLM-based architectures 31:
● LLM as a Router: Analyzes an incoming request and, based on its content or complexity,
directs it to the most appropriate sub-process, tool, or even a cheaper/faster LLM.31
● Parallelization: Assigns a task to multiple agents or LLMs simultaneously and compares
the results to select the best one. For example, asking multiple LLMs to generate code
at the same time and choosing the most efficient one.31
● Reflect and Critique: Creates a loop where an agent criticizes its own output and
improves it based on this feedback. This can be implemented with a "producer" agent
and a "critic" agent.32 This pattern has been shown to increase performance in coding
and other tasks by 11% to 20%.32
● Human-in-the-Loop: Adds human approval or intervention at critical points in an
automated workflow. This is used to increase safety and reliability, especially in high-
risk tasks.31

The study of these architectures and patterns reveals a significant trend in the field of
artificial intelligence agents: the reinterpretation of classic AOSE principles with modern LLM
technologies to bring them to life in more powerful forms. The fundamental distinction
between reactivity and planning is echoed in today's patterns like ReAct (Reason+Act). The
ReAct pattern suggests that the agent performs a Reason step before taking an Action.8 This
is a direct reflection of the "think-then-act" cycle of the classic deliberative architecture. The
agent's evaluation of the situation and creation of a strategy before using a tool corresponds
to the deliberation step, while the actual use of the tool represents the action step.

Similarly, the Reflect and Critique 31 pattern shows strong parallels with the deliberation
cycle at the core of the BDI model. In the BDI cycle, the agent updates its beliefs by
observing the results of an action and reconsiders whether its current intentions are still
valid. The

Reflect and Critique pattern operates a similar mechanism: the agent takes the result of an
action (like a new belief), passes it through a critical filter (belief revision and intention
evaluation), and adjusts its next step based on this self-evaluation. This shows that progress

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in the field is not starting from scratch but is being built on the solid theoretical foundations
(Reactivity, Deliberation, BDI) developed over decades. LLMs combine these proven
concepts with an unprecedented ability for language understanding and reasoning,
repackaging them as new and more powerful abstractions. Being aware of this evolutionary
connection is of critical importance for designing today's complex agent systems in a more
robust, predictable, and principled manner.

8.1.2: Development Processes and Tools

The successful implementation of an artificial intelligence agent system depends not only on
selecting the right architecture and design patterns but also on using a structured
methodology to manage the process from analysis to implementation and the appropriate
software tools to facilitate this process. This sub-topic examines these two fundamental
elements that guide the development of agent-based systems. First, classic AOSE
methodologies (Gaia, Tropos, Prometheus) that provide for the abstract-level analysis and
design of the system will be discussed, followed by a detailed case study of JADE (Java Agent
Development Framework), the most well-known of the development frameworks that turn
these abstract designs into concrete, executable agents. This section aims to provide
comprehensive answers to the questions of "what to think about?" (methodology) and "how
to do it?" (tools).

Classic AOSE Methodologies

Agent-oriented software engineering has developed a series of methodologies in response
to the analysis and design challenges of complex and distributed systems. These
methodologies provide developers with a structured roadmap for understanding system
requirements, defining the roles and responsibilities of agents, and modeling the
interactions between them. The three most prominent methodologies are Gaia, Tropos, and
Prometheus.

Gaia Methodology

Gaia is a methodology that analyzes and designs a multi-agent system (MAS) through the
metaphor of a human organization or society.36 According to this approach, the system is
seen as a "computational organization" composed of autonomous agents that play specific
roles, fulfill the responsibilities of these roles, and interact with each other to achieve a
common goal.38 Gaia divides the development process into two main phases: analysis and
design.39
● Analysis Phase: The purpose of this phase is to understand and conceptualize the
system and its structure at an abstract level, without any implementation details. Two
fundamental models are created in this phase 36:
1. Role Model: Defines each role in the system. A role schema includes the role's
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(functions the role must perform), activities (computations the role can perform on
its own), and protocols (communication patterns used to interact with other
roles).36 Responsibilities are divided into
safety properties, which the system must always maintain, and liveness properties,
which define the role's lifecycle.36
2. Interaction Model: Details the protocols defined in the role model. For each
protocol, it defines its purpose, parties (initiator, responder), and the basic
interaction pattern between them.36
● Design Phase: This phase transforms the abstract models created in the analysis into a
concrete design that will form the basis for implementation. It consists of three models
36:

1. Agent Model: Maps the abstract roles from the analysis to concrete agent types
that will exist in the system. An agent type can embody one or more roles.40
2. Services Model: Defines the main services needed to fulfill the responsibilities of
each role. The inputs, outputs, and preconditions of these services are specified.36
3. Acquaintance Model: Shows the communication paths between agent types as a
graph. It clarifies which agent type needs to communicate with which.40

Tropos Methodology

Tropos, derived from the Greek word "tropē" meaning "easily changeable," is a
requirements-driven methodology that focuses on understanding the intentions, goals, and
social dependencies of stakeholders from the very beginning of the software development
process.41 The core philosophy of Tropos is to consistently use agent-specific mental
concepts (such as actor, goal, plan, dependency) throughout the entire development
lifecycle, from requirements analysis to design, not just in the implementation phase.43
● Phases: Tropos divides the software development process into five main phases 41:
1. Early Requirements Analysis: Analyzes the existing organizational structure before
the system to be developed exists. Stakeholders are modeled as "actors," and their
objectives as "goals." Relationships between actors are expressed as
"dependencies." Eric Yu's i* (i-star) modeling framework is used for this analysis.41
2. Late Requirements Analysis: The "system-to-be" is added to this model as a new
actor. How it will help other actors achieve their goals and its dependencies with
them are defined. This reveals the functional and non-functional requirements of
the system.44
3. Architectural Design: The overall architecture of the system is defined in terms of
subsystems (which can also be agents) and their interactions. At this stage, the
actors in the system are modeled in more detail, and their capabilities are
determined.44
4. Detailed Design: The internal structure and behavior of each agent are detailed.
The capabilities, beliefs, and communication protocols of the agents are defined in
detail.45
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5. Implementation: The detailed design is brought to life on a selected agent platform

(e.g., JADE).

Prometheus Methodology

Prometheus is a practical, detailed, and iterative methodology designed specifically for the
development of BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) based intelligent agents.47 It was developed
based on industrial and pedagogical experiences and aims to offer developers an "end-to-
end" process from specification to implementation.47
● Phases: The Prometheus process consists of three main phases 47:
1. System Specification: Defines what the system should do. In this phase, the
system's basic functionalities, inputs from the outside world called percepts,
effects on the outside world called actions, and use case scenarios that illustrate
the system's operation are determined.
2. Architectural Design: Uses the outputs of the specification phase to determine
which agent types will be in the system and how these agents will interact with
each other. Functionalities are grouped under agent types based on criteria such as
data coupling and logical relationship.50 Communication paths between agents are
visualized with
agent acquaintance diagrams, and interactions are detailed with interaction
protocols.
3. Detailed Design: Focuses on the internal structure of each agent. An agent's
functionality is realized through modules called capabilities. Each capability is
detailed with plans triggered by specific events and the data structures used by
these plans. At the end of this phase, artifacts such as capability diagrams and plan
descriptors that show the internal logic of each agent are produced.

The following table provides a comparative overview of these three fundamental AOSE
methodologies, summarizing their philosophies, focal points, and strengths.

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Table 8.1.2-A: Overview of AOSE Methodologies: Gaia, Tropos, Prometheus

Methodology Core Philosophy Focus Main Phases Strengths

Gaia Computational Role-based Analysis (Role, Strong in

Organization 36 analysis and social Interaction modeling open,
structure. Roles Models), Design closed, static, and
and interactions (Agent, Service, organized
of agents within Acquaintance systems.
the system. Models).36 Relatively simple
to understand and
apply.38

Tropos Requirements- Goals of Early/Late Covers the very

Driven stakeholders and Requirements early stages of
Development 41 their social Analysis, software
dependencies. Architectural development,
Focuses on the Design, Detailed provides
"why" question. Design.41 traceability from
requirements to
code.41

Prometheus BDI Agent Design and System Practical and

Development 48 implementation Specification, detailed, offering
of intelligent, Architectural the developer
goal-oriented Design, Detailed concrete artifacts
(BDI) agents. Design.47 and steps
throughout the
process.
Specifically
designed for BDI
systems.47

Development Frameworks: JADE Case Study

While methodologies provide an abstract framework for how to design an agent system,
development frameworks provide the concrete tools and infrastructure necessary to bring
these designs to life. The Java Agent Development Framework (JADE) is one of the most
established and widely used platforms in this field.

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JADE Overview

JADE is an open-source software development framework that is fully compliant with the
standards set by FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents).52 It is written entirely in
Java and offers developers the ability to easily implement and deploy multi-agent systems.54
● Architecture: JADE's architecture is built on a distributed platform. A JADE platform
consists of one or more containers. Each container runs on its own Java Virtual Machine
(JVM) and can host multiple agents.52 There must always be one
Main Container on the platform; all other containers register with this main container
upon startup.55 The platform is managed by two special system agents 52:
1. AMS (Agent Management System): The central authority of the platform. It
manages the lifecycle of all agents (creation, suspension, termination, migration,
etc.) and assigns a unique identifier (AID - Agent Identifier) to each agent.
2. DF (Directory Facilitator): The "yellow pages" service of the platform. Agents can
register their services with the DF, and other agents can query the DF to find agents
that offer a specific service.
● Communication: All inter-agent communication is done through asynchronous
message passing compliant with FIPA-ACL (Agent Communication Language) standards.
Each agent has a private message queue that holds incoming messages.52 When an
agent sends a message to another agent, the message is delivered to the receiver's
queue by JADE's Message Transport System (MTS). The sending agent can continue its
work without waiting for the message to be delivered.57
● Task Execution: In JADE, an agent's tasks or intentions are implemented through
Behaviour objects.52 JADE uses only a single Java thread for each agent and manages all
behaviors within the agent with cooperative scheduling. This allows thousands of
agents to run efficiently at the same time.40 JADE simplifies the development process by
offering various ready-made behavior classes such as
OneShotBehaviour (runs once), CyclicBehaviour (repeats continuously),
WakerBehaviour (runs after a specific time), and FSMBehaviour (models a state
machine).52
Case Study: Prototyping an Intelligent Transportation System
To demonstrate how AOSE methodologies and development frameworks come together in
practice, let's consider an intelligent transportation system scenario that provides
personalized route recommendations and reacts to real-time traffic events.58 This system
will be analyzed and designed using the Gaia methodology and then prototyped using the
JADE platform.

Scenario Definition: The system will receive route requests from users (e.g., the fastest
route from point A to point B), respond to these requests using an external Geographic
Information System (GIS), and present the results filtered according to the user's profile
(e.g., preference for public transport). Additionally, the system will monitor real-time traffic
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events from an external source (e.g., road closures due to accidents) and inform the user if
these events affect their current route.58

Analysis and Design with Gaia

1. Defining Roles: The first step is to divide the basic responsibilities in the system into
abstract roles. Four main roles can be defined for this scenario 40:
○ PersonalAssistant: This is the role that acts on behalf of each user. It receives route
requests from the user, requests routes from the TravelGuide role, filters the
results according to the user's profile, and presents them to the user. It also listens
for traffic events from the EventsHandler role and alerts the user if necessary.
○ TravelGuide: This role wraps the external GIS system. It receives route queries and
returns the results obtained from the GIS.
○ EventsHandler: This role continuously monitors an external traffic database. When
it detects a new event, it notifies all relevant PersonalAssistant roles.
○ SocialType: A general role that allows agents to find other agents (and the services
they offer) on the platform. It includes functions like registering with and querying
the DF.
2. Modeling Interactions: The communication protocols between roles are defined. For
example, a PersonalAssistant requesting a route initiates the RequestRoutes protocol.
The TravelGuide responds to this request with RespondRoutes. The EventsHandler
informs others with the InformForNewEvents protocol. These interactions are
documented using Gaia's interaction model or, for more complex scenarios, AUML
sequence diagrams.58

Prototyping with JADE

The abstract design made with Gaia is now translated into the concrete structures of JADE.
This translation process is one of the most critical steps of AOSE and builds a bridge between
the theoretical model and the working code. Although the literature states that there is "no
given way" for this transition 40, the case study provides a "roadmap" showing how this
translation can be systematized.40
1. Mapping Roles to Agents: The roles in Gaia are mapped to JADE agent classes. For
example, the PersonalAssistant role becomes the PersonalAssistantAgent class, and the
TravelGuide role becomes the TravelGuideAgent class. An agent class can combine the
responsibilities of multiple Gaia roles.40
2. Translating Role Responsibilities into Behaviours: The "liveness" property, which is the
core functionality of a role, directly corresponds to a JADE Behaviour. For example, the
(PushEvents)ω liveness formula of the EventsHandler role (transmitting events in an
infinite loop) is coded as a CyclicBehaviour named PushEventsBehaviour.40 These
behaviors are initiated in the agent's
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(liveness) is transformed into a concrete concept in JADE (Behaviour).

3. Implementing Protocols with ACL Messages: The interaction protocols defined in Gaia
are implemented using JADE's ACLMessage class. For example, for the RequestRoutes
protocol, the PersonalAssistantAgent creates a message of type ACLMessage.REQUEST
and sends it to the TravelGuideAgent. The TravelGuideAgent can use a ready-made
JADE behavior like AchieveREResponder, which is compliant with the FIPA-Request
protocol, to respond to this message.40 This shows how an abstract "protocol" concept
in the methodology is transformed into standardized messaging patterns in the
framework.
4. Integration with External Systems: The TravelGuideAgent needs to communicate with
an external GIS web service. The design must specify the necessary technologies for this
integration (e.g., a SOAP client or a library for REST API calls) and data formats (e.g.,
XML or JSON parsers).60 If the system is to be integrated with a traffic simulator,
interfaces like TraSMAPI, which allow real-time communication with simulators like
SUMO, can be used.61

This case study demonstrates that the success of AOSE is not just about having a good
methodology or a powerful toolset. The truly critical success factor is the ability to establish
a systematic translation process between the two. This "from conceptual model to code"
bridge concretely shows how abstract analysis (Gaia) can guide practical application (JADE)
and how theory can be transformed into an industrial tool.

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8.2: Deployment and Lifecycle Management

The development of an artificial intelligence agent or a multi-agent system is only the first
half of the software engineering process. The real challenges emerge when the agent leaves
the laboratory or simulation environment and is integrated into real-world systems,
deployed, and managed throughout its service life. This section addresses these critical post-
development stages and examines how Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE)
principles intersect with modern DevOps and MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
practices. The focus is not only on getting an agent up and running but also on maintaining it
operationally in a reliable, scalable, traceable, and adaptable manner to changing conditions
over time. This process covers a wide spectrum, from overcoming the simulation-reality gap
to strategic deployment in cloud and edge computing architectures; from continuous
monitoring and telemetry collection mechanisms to updating agent capabilities through
continuous learning.

8.2.1: Real System Integration and Deployment

The integration and deployment of an AI agent that performs perfectly in a simulation
environment into real-world settings is a complex process that requires overcoming
unforeseen challenges and additional engineering solutions. The noisy sensor data,
unpredictable physical interactions, and dynamic conditions of the real world are
fundamentally different from the sterile environment of a simulation. This sub-topic
examines the primary challenge of this transition, the simulation-to-reality (sim2real) gap,
the techniques used to bridge this gap, and the modern architectural and technological
approaches (cloud/edge computing, containerization) that enable the scalable and efficient
deployment of agents into real-world systems.

The Simulation-to-Reality (Sim2Real) Gap

Sim2Real refers to the process of transferring AI models and control policies learned or
developed in a simulation environment directly to real-world hardware (e.g., robots, drones)
without requiring additional training or fine-tuning.62 Simulation offers significant
advantages, such as being cheap, fast, and safe for data collection, and is indispensable,
especially for hazardous tasks or situations requiring large amounts of labeled data.62
However, the inevitable differences between simulation and reality can cause a significant
performance drop known as the "reality gap."64
● Problem Definition and Challenges: The main causes of the reality gap are:
○ Inaccuracies in Physical Modeling: Simulators struggle to perfectly model complex
physical phenomena such as friction, elasticity, collision dynamics, and fluid
mechanics.62 These differences are particularly pronounced in "contact-rich" tasks
where robotic arms interact with objects.65
○ Visual Differences: Lighting, textures, reflections, and shadows in a simulation can
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agents, especially those based on computer vision.65

○ Sensor Noise and Calibration Differences: Real-world sensors (cameras, IMUs,
lidars) are subject to noise, and each piece of hardware may have its own unique
calibration errors. Simulations often idealize these imperfections.
● Solution Approaches: Various engineering approaches have been developed to close or
at least narrow this gap:
1. Domain Randomization: This technique aims to expose the agent not to a single
ideal environment in the simulation, but to a wide variety of potential real-world
conditions. During the simulation, physical parameters (mass, friction), visual
properties (lighting, textures, camera angles), and other variables are continuously
changed within a random range.62 The idea here is that if the agent learns to
succeed in a simulation environment with such a wide variation, the real world will
be just one of these variations, and thus the agent will generalize better.
2. System Identification: This approach focuses on making the simulator more
realistic. A small amount of data is collected from the real hardware, and this data
is used to accurately estimate the simulator's physical parameters (e.g., a motor's
torque constant or a joint's friction coefficient). Thus, the simulation environment is
made more faithful to the targeted real hardware.62
3. Domain Adaptation: This technique uses machine learning models to make the
data produced in the simulation (e.g., synthetic images) more similar to real-world
data. In particular, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can be used to make
simulation images more photorealistic, so that detection models trained with this
data perform better in the real world.62
Distributed Architectures: Cloud and Edge Computing
The decision of where to deploy an agent system is not just an infrastructure choice but a
strategic decision that directly affects the system's fundamental architecture, capabilities,
and performance. Although deployment is often seen as the final step in the development
cycle in traditional software engineering, for AI agents interacting with the physical world,
this decision must be made at the very beginning of the design process. For example, a task
like obstacle avoidance for an autonomous drone, which requires decisions in milliseconds,
cannot run in the cloud due to network latency.66 This task must run on the drone itself, i.e.,
at the "edge." This necessity limits the size, complexity, and power consumption of the
model that will perform the task. Therefore, the question of "what an agent will do" cannot
be separated from the question of "where it will do it." This shows that modern AOSE must
be aware of infrastructure and hardware, and the deployment strategy must be treated as a
fundamental architectural decision. In this context, cloud and edge computing are two
fundamental deployment paradigms that offer different advantages and disadvantages.
● Cloud Computing Architecture: The cloud offers on-demand, scalable, and high-
performance central computing resources. It is ideal for computationally intensive tasks
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scale data analysis.67 However, the process of sending data to central servers,
processing it, and receiving the results is dependent on a network connection and
causes latency. Also, continuous data flow can lead to high bandwidth costs.67
● Edge Computing Architecture: Edge computing brings computation and data storage
closer to where the data is produced, i.e., to devices at the edge of the network
(sensors, cameras, smartphones, drones, etc.).68 The main advantages of this approach
are
low latency achieved by processing data locally, the ability to operate even without an
internet connection (offline operation), and increased data privacy and security by not
sending sensitive data to the cloud.66 The disadvantages are that edge devices usually
have limited computing power, memory, and storage capacity.67
● Example Application (Autonomous Drone Fleet): The most effective use of these two
architectures is often a hybrid approach. Let's consider the management of an
autonomous drone fleet:
○ Cloud Tasks (High-Level Planning): Strategic and computationally intensive tasks
such as the fleet's overall mission planning, determining the most optimal routes
for the entire fleet, analyzing map data of large geographical areas, and processing
terabytes of data collected post-mission to retrain models are managed by a central
agent or system in the cloud.66 These tasks are less sensitive to latency.
○ Edge Tasks (Low-Latency Actions): The edge computing device on each drone (e.g.,
a processor like NVIDIA Jetson or Google Coral) is responsible for instantaneous and
critical decisions. Tasks such as real-time obstacle detection from camera images
and avoiding these obstacles, stabilizing flight according to sudden weather
conditions like wind, and determining position with visual odometry in places
where the GPS signal is weak require decisions in milliseconds and therefore must
be run locally on the drone.66

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Table 8.2.1-A: Architectural Trade-offs: Cloud vs. Edge Deployment for AI Agents

Aspect Edge Computing Cloud Computing

Data Processing Location At or near the data source (on- In centralized data centers.70
device).68

Latency Very low (milliseconds); ideal for Higher; data transfer over the
real-time decisions.69 network takes time.67

Bandwidth Low usage; only processed or High usage; continuous streaming

important data is sent.66 of raw data may be required, can
be costly.67

Scalability More difficult due to hardware Very high; resources can be

limitations. Scaling requires dynamically increased or
adding more devices.67 decreased on demand.73

Privacy and Security High; sensitive data remains on Lower; data needs to be
the device, reducing transmission protected during transmission
risk.66 and while stored in the cloud.67

Cost High initial hardware cost, low Low initial cost (pay-as-you-go),
operational bandwidth cost.68 high operational
computation/bandwidth cost.67

Suitable Tasks (Example: Drone Real-time obstacle avoidance, Fleet's overall route optimization,
Fleet) flight stabilization, instant target post-mission data analysis, model
detection.66 training, fleet coordination.66

Scaled Deployment with Containerization

Containerization and orchestration, the cornerstones of modern software deployment, have
become indispensable technologies for the reliable, repeatable, and scalable deployment of
artificial intelligence agents and multi-agent systems. These technologies bring the "build
once, run anywhere" philosophy to life.
● Containerization with Docker: Docker is a platform that wraps an application (in this
case, an AI agent) along with all its necessary dependencies (libraries, runtime
environment, system tools, configuration files, etc.) into a lightweight, isolated, and
portable package called a container.74
○ Benefits: Containerization provides consistency between development, testing, and
production environments, thus eliminating the "it worked on my machine"
problem.75 Since each agent runs in its own isolated environment, dependency
conflicts are prevented, and security is increased.76
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○ Dockerfile: A text-based script that defines how to build a container image. Below is
a conceptual Dockerfile example for a simple Python-based AI agent 74:
Dockerfile
# Use a lightweight Python version as the base image
FROM python:3.10-slim

# Set the working directory inside the container

WORKDIR /app

# Copy the dependency file

COPY requirements.txt.

# Install Python dependencies

RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

# Copy the rest of the application's source code

COPY..

# Specify the port the agent will use to communicate with the outside world
EXPOSE 8000

# Command to run when the container starts

CMD ["python", "agent.py"]

● Orchestration with Kubernetes (K8s): While running a few agent containers is easy,
managing, scaling, and making a large-scale system of hundreds or thousands of agents
fault-tolerant requires an orchestration platform. Kubernetes is the industry standard in
this field.74 Kubernetes automates the deployment, scaling, and management of
containerized applications (agents) on a server cluster.75
○ Core Capabilities:
■ Auto-scaling: Kubernetes can automatically increase or decrease the number of
agent containers (replicas) based on metrics like CPU usage (Horizontal Pod
Autoscaler - HPA). This ensures the system maintains performance during high
demand and prevents resource waste during low demand.74
■ High Availability & Self-healing: If an agent container or the server (node) it
runs on crashes, Kubernetes automatically detects this and restarts the missing
container on a healthy server in the cluster, ensuring the system runs without
interruption.77
■ Service Discovery & Load Balancing: Kubernetes provides access to a group of
agent replicas through a single stable network address and intelligently
distributes incoming requests among these replicas to balance the load.75
○ Kubernetes Deployment Configuration: A YAML file that defines how an agent
should be deployed and scaled. Below is a conceptual Deployment configuration
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example that will run 5 copies of the ai-agent image above 74:
YAML
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: ai-agent-deployment
spec:
replicas: 5 # Ensure 5 copies of the agent are running
selector:
matchLabels:
app: ai-agent
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: ai-agent
spec:
containers:
- name: ai-agent
image: ai-agent:latest # Docker image to use
ports:
- containerPort: 8000
These technologies form the fundamental infrastructure that enables multi-agent systems to
move from the laboratory to real-world applications, such as automated trading bots in
financial services or diagnostic agents in healthcare, and operate reliably and scalably.74
8.2.2: Continuous Monitoring and Update
The deployment of an artificial intelligence agent is not the end of its lifecycle, but the
beginning. A deployed agent requires continuous monitoring of its performance, correction
of emerging errors, and, most importantly, updating its capabilities to adapt to changing
environmental conditions and new data throughout its service life. This process is vital for
ensuring the long-term effectiveness and reliability of the agent. This sub-topic addresses
this dynamic aspect of the operational lifecycle management of agents. It will examine how
telemetry data is collected from agents and the concept of "observability" to understand the
overall health of the system, "continuous learning" strategies that prevent the degradation
of agent performance over time, and "versioning and compatibility" practices that ensure
these updates are managed safely and consistently. This area is where AOSE intersects most
intensively with modern MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) and DevOps principles.

Observability in Multi-Agent Systems

The distributed, autonomous, and dynamic nature of multi-agent systems (MAS) makes
them much more difficult to monitor and understand than traditional monolithic
applications. In a system where hundreds or thousands of agents make independent
decisions on different machines and interact in complex ways, finding the root cause of a
problem can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.78 The concept of "observability" has
emerged in response to this challenge. Observability goes beyond just monitoring
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predefined metrics; it relates to how well we can understand the internal state of a system
from its external outputs. This means the ability to diagnose even problems that the system
has never encountered before.79
● Challenges: The main challenge of observability in MAS is "observability gaps." When a
process starts in one agent and ends in another, it is extremely difficult to establish the
connection between these two events and trace the entire process flow. The
geographical distribution of agents and communication delays deepen this problem.78
● Collection of Telemetry Data: An effective observability strategy is based on the
systematic collection and analysis of three main types of telemetry data 79:
1. Metrics: Quantitative measurements about the system's performance. These
include resource consumption metrics like CPU and memory usage of agents;
latency metrics like the time to complete a task; throughput metrics like the
number of transactions per second; and error rates.79
2. Traces: Show the end-to-end journey of a request or transaction within the system.
Distributed tracing reveals which agents a user's request passes through, how
much time it spends in each agent, and the dependencies between them. This is
one of the most powerful tools for identifying performance bottlenecks and where
errors occur.78
3. Logs: Timestamped, text-based records of specific events that occur in the system.
They provide detailed context for debugging and post-event analysis.
● Tools and Standards: Standardized tools are critically important for collecting and
processing this telemetry data. OpenTelemetry (OTel) has become the industry
standard in this field, a provider-agnostic, open-source framework. OTel provides a set
of APIs and SDKs for adding instrumentation code to applications (agents) to generate,
collect, and send traces, metrics, and logs in a standard format to the desired analysis
platform (backend).81 The language and platform independence of OTel makes it ideal
for monitoring a heterogeneous MAS composed of agents written in different languages
like Python, Java, and Go.82 Agent-specific tools like TruLens combine OTel-based
tracing with special metrics, such as the evaluation of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented
Generation) systems, to provide more in-depth analysis.82
Continuous Learning and Model Adaptation
Artificial intelligence agents, especially those based on machine learning models, are not
static entities. The world they encounter after deployment is constantly changing; user
behaviors, data distributions, and environmental conditions differ over time. This situation
leads to a phenomenon known as "model drift" or "concept drift": the performance of a
model decreases over time because the data it was trained on no longer reflects the current
reality.83 The only way to combat model drift and maintain the agent's effectiveness is to
continuously update it with new data. This process is called "continuous learning."
● Update Strategies: There are basically two strategies for updating agent models:
1. Periodic/Batch Retraining: This is a more traditional approach. The system collects
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new data over a specific period (e.g., a week or a month). At the end of this period,
the model is retrained from scratch using all the old and newly collected data.85
This training is usually done offline. The newly trained model, after passing tests, is
deployed to production to replace the old one. This approach ensures that the
model is stable and predictable and usually offers high accuracy.86 However, the
model's performance may gradually decrease (drift) between two training periods,
and retraining with large datasets can be computationally very costly.85
2. Online Learning: In this approach, the model is updated instantly and incrementally
as new data arrives (e.g., with each new data point or a small batch of data).88 The
model is in a continuous learning state and does not need a full retraining. This
allows the system to
adapt very quickly to changing data patterns and is more efficient in terms of
resource usage.86 However, online learning can be more sensitive to noisy or
erroneous data, which can destabilize the model (problems like "catastrophic
forgetting"). Managing the model's consistency is more complex.88
● Case Study (Chatbot Agent): A customer service chatbot must adapt to changes in
users' language use (new slang words, popular topics) and the types of questions they
ask.
○ Periodic Approach: All conversation records of the bot for one week are collected.
At the end of the week, this new data is added to the existing training set, and the
bot's language understanding (NLU) and response generation models are retrained.
The new model is deployed at the beginning of the next week.
○ Online Approach: The bot instantly updates its model weights by learning small
lessons from new interactions at the end of each conversation or each day. This
allows the bot to learn to respond much more quickly to questions about a new
product or a viral topic.
● MLOps Pipeline: The continuous learning process is managed through an automated
pipeline using MLOps principles. This pipeline applies the concepts of continuous
integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to machine learning and typically includes
the following steps 83:
1. Data Collection and Validation: New data (and feedback) is continuously collected
from the agents in production and its quality is validated.
2. Model Retraining: The model is retrained according to the determined strategy
(periodic or trigger-based).
3. Model Evaluation: The performance of the newly trained model is compared with
the previous version and predefined business metrics.
4. Deployment: If the new model is better, it is automatically deployed to the
production environment.
5. Monitoring: The performance of the deployed model is continuously monitored
with telemetry data. When model drift is detected, the pipeline is re-triggered.

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This cyclical structure transforms the agent's lifecycle from a "develop and deploy" model to
a dynamic process of "develop, deploy, monitor, learn, repeat." This is an indication that
AOSE is merging with MLOps to form a new hybrid discipline that could be called
"AgentOps." AgentOps combines the structural design principles of AOSE with the data-
driven and automated operational practices of MLOps to manage the lifecycle of modern,
intelligent, and adaptive agent systems.

The following table summarizes the key features and differences between these two
fundamental update strategies.

Table 8.2.2-A: Comparison of Agent Update Strategies: Online Learning vs. Periodic
Retraining

Criterion Online Learning Periodic Retraining

Adaptation Speed Very high; adapts to new data Low; updates only during
instantly or in near real-time.88 retraining cycles, the model can
become "stale" in between.87

Computational Cost Low; each update is small and High; requires a full training on
incremental. Resource usage is the entire dataset in each cycle,
spread over time.86 intensive resource usage.85

Model Stability Lower; can be sensitive to noisy High; exhibits more stable and
or outlier data, difficult to ensure predictable behaviors as it is
stability.88 trained on the entire dataset.86

Data Efficiency High; each data point is used for Low; all data must be stored and
learning and can then be managed for retraining.
discarded, does not require large
storage.

Noise Sensitivity High; a single faulty data point Low; noise in a large dataset has
can negatively affect the less impact on the overall model.
model.88

Application Scenarios Dynamic environments where Environments where data

data distribution changes rapidly distribution changes more slowly
(e.g., financial market analysis, or where stability is a priority
real-time recommendation (e.g., medical diagnosis, image
systems, chatbots that need to classification, chatbots focused
adapt quickly to trends).86 on a specific subject area).85

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Lifecycle Governance: Versioning and Compatibility

In a dynamic system with a continuous learning and update cycle, a robust governance
framework is mandatory for managing changes. The two fundamental pillars of this
framework are versioning and backward compatibility.
● The Importance of Versioning: In a continuously learning agent system, it is critical to
version not only the agent's source code but also the model, the data used to train the
model, and the configuration files together.91 This holistic approach provides two main
benefits:
1. Reproducibility: Knowing exactly which code, which dataset, and which
hyperparameters produced a specific model version (e.g., v1.2.0) is vital from a
scientific and engineering perspective. This makes it possible to repeat
experiments, verify results, and debug errors.91
2. Rollback: If a new model version deployed to production (e.g., v2.0) causes
unexpected problems (e.g., performance degradation or erroneous behavior), the
version control system makes it possible to quickly and safely revert to the previous
stable version (v1.9.5). This increases the reliability and availability of the system. 91
● Best Practices and Tools:
○ Semantic Versioning: A common practice is to number versions in the
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format. MAJOR version indicates non-backward compatible
(breaking) changes; MINOR version indicates backward-compatible new features;
PATCH version indicates backward-compatible bug fixes.92 This makes it easier to
understand the potential impact of an update.
○ Tools: Special tools are available to manage this process. MLflow tracks and records
models, parameters, metrics, and artifacts as part of an experiment. DVC (Data
Version Control) works with Git to efficiently version large datasets and models.
These tools maintain the link between code, data, and model, creating a holistic
version history.91
● Backward Compatibility: The ability of a new version of a system or component to work
seamlessly with older versions.92 In multi-agent systems, this means that an updated
v2.0 agent must still be able to communicate correctly with a v1.5 agent that has not
yet been updated. This is critically important, especially in large and distributed systems
where not all agents can be updated at the same time. The following strategies are used
to ensure backward compatibility:
○ API and Protocol Versioning: The APIs and message formats used in inter-agent
communication must be carefully versioned.
○ Avoiding Breaking Changes: As much as possible, changes that break existing
interfaces or data structures should be avoided. Adding new fields is safer than
deleting or changing existing ones (additive changes).94
○ Compatibility Layers: When necessary, intermediate layers that act as a
"translator" between new and old versions can be created. This layer ensures that
communication continues by translating a message from an old format to a new
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one, or vice versa.92

○ Deprecation: If an old feature or API is to be removed, this should be announced to
users (other agents or developers) in advance, and sufficient time should be given
for the transition.95

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9 Security and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Agents

Introduction
The integration of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents into a wide range of societal
and economic processes, from finance and healthcare to transportation and industrial
automation, presents both revolutionary opportunities and unprecedented challenges. The
long-term sustainability and societal acceptance of these agents depend not only on their
technical capabilities but also on the foundation of trust upon which they are built. This trust
is established on a dual imperative, two fundamental and inextricably linked components:
robust security and unwavering ethical compliance. These two concepts are like two sides of
the same coin; security ensures that an agent's actions are free from malicious manipulation
and are of its own volition, while ethics ensures that these actions are "right" in terms of
societal values and norms.1

The risks to be addressed in this unit cover a broad spectrum, from the mathematical
fragility of a single machine learning model to the systemic societal risks created by
unaccountable autonomous systems in critical areas.3 A minor digital distortion designed to
deceive an agent's perception system could cause an autonomous vehicle to have a
catastrophic accident; an unchecked error in a financial trading agent could lead to millions
of dollars in market losses 6; or a hidden bias in a medical diagnostic agent could have life-
threatening consequences for certain patient groups.7 Therefore, the security and ethics of
AI agents are not merely a technical or philosophical debate but also an urgent and practical
governance issue.

This report examines this dual challenge in depth. First, under the heading "Security Threats
and Defense" (Topic 9.1), the concrete technical threats facing agents and the defense
mechanisms developed against these threats will be discussed. This section will focus on the
question of "how to protect the agent," from the subtle nature of adversarial attacks to the
necessity of system-level access controls. Then, under the heading "Ethical Principles and
Regulations" (Topic 9.2), the discussion will be broadened to examine the ethical decision-
making processes of agents and their legal accountability mechanisms. Here, the central
question will be "how the agent will protect us." This structural flow provides a logical
progression from micro-level technical vulnerabilities to macro-level societal and legal
consequences, aiming to present the holistic perspective required for the safe and ethical
integration of AI agents into our future.

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9.1.Security Threats and Defense

As the autonomy of artificial intelligence agents increases, the complexity and potential
impact of the threats these systems are exposed to grow in tandem. These threats range
from the algorithmic vulnerabilities of the machine learning model at the agent's core to the
security flaws of the broader cyber-physical system in which it is integrated. Therefore,
ensuring the security of agents requires a multi-layered approach that involves both
increasing the model's internal resilience and keeping the agent's operating environment
under strict control. In this section, these two fundamental security layers—resilience
against adversarial attacks and systemic access controls—will be examined in detail.

9.1.1: Adversarial Attacks and Resilience

The machine learning models that form the basis of autonomous agents' decision-making
capabilities are, by their nature, statistical and mathematical structures. This structure leaves
them vulnerable to subtle manipulations that human intelligence can easily overlook but are
critical for machines. Adversarial attacks represent a sophisticated class of threats that aim
to exploit this fundamental vulnerability to subvert an agent's perception and, consequently,
its actions.

The Anatomy of Adversarial Attacks

The basic principle of adversarial attacks is to target weaknesses in the regions near a
machine learning model's decision boundaries. Attackers add intentionally designed small
perturbations to the model's inputs, which are almost impossible for the human eye to
perceive. These perturbations cause the model to assign the input to a completely wrong
class.3 For example, changing a few pixels in an image, adding a faint noise to an audio file,
or inserting words that do not spoil the meaning into a text can dramatically change the
agent's decisions.3

These attacks are divided into two main categories based on the attacker's level of
knowledge about the target model:
● White-Box Attacks: In this scenario, the attacker has full knowledge of the model's
internal workings, such as its architecture, parameters (weights and biases), and even
its training data. This full access allows the attacker to precisely create the most
effective perturbation by calculating the model's gradients (the derivative of the loss
function with respect to the input). Gradient-based methods like the Fast Gradient Sign
Method (FGSM) form the basis of such attacks.3
● Black-Box Attacks: In this more realistic scenario, the attacker has no information about
the model's internal structure. The attacker sees the model only as a "black box,"
meaning they can provide certain inputs and observe the outputs they receive in return.
Black-box attacks are generally based on two main strategies: (1) Transferability
Attacks: The attacker creates a surrogate model similar to the target model. They hope
that the adversarial examples developed on this surrogate model using white-box
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methods will also work on the actual target model. This transferability arises from the
overlap of features learned by different models from similar data distributions.9 (2)
Query-Based Attacks: The attacker tests the model with numerous queries to try to
learn about its decision boundaries and uses this information to iteratively create an
effective perturbation.3

A more detailed taxonomy can be made based on their goals in the attack lifecycle:
● Evasion Attacks: This is the most common type of attack. It aims to bypass detection
mechanisms by presenting specially crafted inputs to the model during its inference
phase, i.e., while it is running in production. For example, an antivirus software
classifying a malicious software with a few bytes changed as "harmless" is an example
of this type.3
● Poisoning Attacks: These attacks target the model's training phase. The attacker injects
intentionally corrupted or mislabeled data into the training dataset. This "poisonous"
data disrupts the model's learning process, either reducing its overall performance or
creating hidden "backdoors" that are sensitive to specific inputs. For example, it is
possible to poison the model of an autonomous vehicle by labeling all "stop" signs with
a certain type of graffiti as "speed limit."3
● Model Extraction Attacks: The attacker's goal is to steal the target model. By repeatedly
querying the model and recording the input-output pairs, they train a copy model that
mimics the functionality of the target model. This is a serious intellectual property
threat, especially for proprietary models with high commercial value.3
● Inference Attacks: These attacks target the data on which the model was trained,
rather than the model itself. By analyzing the model's outputs, an attempt is made to
access sensitive information used in the training set (e.g., a patient's medical record or
whether a user is in the dataset). This is a particularly critical vulnerability in terms of
privacy.3
Attack Scenarios in Single and Multi-Agent Systems
The theoretical foundations of adversarial attacks are concretized by practical and often
alarming scenarios.
● Image Classification and Physical World Attacks: Research that began in a laboratory
setting has shown how effective these attacks can be in the physical world. Researchers
have succeeded in tricking deep neural networks like AlexNet into classifying all objects
in a picture as "ostrich."10 What is even more alarming is that these manipulations are
also effective on physical objects. For example, an "adversarial patch" that looks like an
irrelevant pattern stuck next to a banana caused the VGG16 model to perceive the
banana as a "toaster."10 Such attacks pose a serious threat, especially for cyber-physical
systems like autonomous vehicles.
○ Case Analysis: Deceiving Autonomous Vehicles: The perception systems of
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Researchers have successfully misled these systems by placing small, inconspicuous

labels or tapes on traffic signs. One of the most well-known examples is when
McAfee researchers tricked a Tesla vehicle's MobilEye camera system by placing a
2-inch piece of black tape extending the middle of the number '3' on a "35 mph"
speed limit sign. The system read the sign as "85 mph," and the vehicle's
autonomous cruise control system began to accelerate dangerously.13 This attack is
proof of how a distortion designed in the digital environment can be transferred to
the physical world and lead to catastrophic results in a real-time system. The
complexity of attacks is also increasing; multi-modal attacks such as displaying
dynamically changing patches on a screen mounted on a moving vehicle 17 or using
a single physical object that simultaneously targets LiDAR, camera, and radar
sensors are also being developed.8 Duke University's "MadRadar" project has
shown that it can cause autonomous vehicles to see non-existent "ghost" cars by
manipulating radar signals.18
● Systemic Vulnerabilities in Multi-Agent Systems: While the security of a single agent is
challenging, the attack surface increases exponentially in systems where multiple
agents cooperate. In these systems, attackers can target not only individual agents but
also the interaction between agents and the collective decision-making mechanism.
○ Communication and Coordination Attacks: Attackers can disrupt the system's
coordination by jamming inter-agent communication channels or by launching Sybil
attacks where an attacker controls multiple fake identities.12 A more sophisticated
method is
Byzantine attacks, in which one or more malicious agents sabotage the system's
overall consensus by intentionally sending conflicting or false information to
others.18 This is particularly dangerous for systems that require distributed decision-
making, such as financial trading or swarm robotics.
○ Collective Decision Manipulation: Research frameworks like M-Spoiler have shown
how even a single agent in a multi-agent discussion environment (for example, by
"stubbornly" adhering to a certain idea) can steer the entire group's final decision in
the wrong direction.19 Similarly, in
camouflage attacks, a malicious agent can infiltrate the system by changing its
appearance or behavior to mislead other agents.21 Such attacks have the potential
to bring down the entire structure by finding the weakest link in the system.
Technical Defense and Resilience Enhancement Strategies
Against these serious threats posed by adversarial attacks, the research community has
developed various defense strategies, both proactive and reactive. These strategies cover a
wide range from strengthening the model itself to filtering incoming data and detecting
abnormal behavior.
● Robustness Enhancement Methods: These methods aim to make the model's internal
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○
Adversarial Training: This is the most common and effective defense technique. Its
basic logic is based on the principle that "the best offense is a good defense." At
each step of the training cycle, new adversarial examples are generated using the
current model, and these examples are included in the training set along with clean
data. This process "vaccinates" the model against its own weaknesses, making its
decision boundaries smoother and more robust.4 Technically, this is formulated as a
nested optimization problem: while the model's weights (
θ) are minimized in the outer loop, the perturbation (δ) that maximizes the loss (L)
within a certain constraint (ε) is found in the inner loop: minθE[max∣∣δ∣∣≤ε
L(x+δ,y;θ)].25 Although this method has been proven successful, it has
disadvantages such as high training cost and being effective only against known
attack types, and it can experience generalization problems known as "robust
overfitting."26
○ Defensive Distillation: In this technique, the probability outputs of a large "teacher"
model, first trained with a high "temperature" parameter (a hyperparameter that
softens the softmax function), are used as "soft labels" to train a smaller "student"
model. This process smooths the decision boundaries of the student model and
makes it difficult for the attacker to find effective perturbations by hiding gradient
information.4
○ Gradient Masking: This aims to intentionally disrupt or hide the model's gradient,
which is the information most needed by the attacker. This can be done by methods
such as adding non-differentiable layers to the model or adding random noise to
the gradient calculations.23 However, since these methods do not solve the
underlying vulnerability of the attack, they can often be overcome by more
advanced attacks.
● Anomaly Detection: This reactive approach focuses on distinguishing whether an input
to the model is normal or adversarial.
○ Statistical and Learning-Based Methods: Algorithms such as Local Outlier Factor
(LOF) or Isolation Forest detect anomalies by measuring how much a data point
deviates from the normal data distribution.22 In addition, a secondary classifier
trained on a dataset of known adversarial attacks and normal data can be used as
an "attack detection" model.22
○ Generative Model-Based Detection: In this approach, models such as Generative
Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Autoencoders are trained to learn the distribution
of normal data. During testing, it is checked how well an input presented to the
model can be "reconstructed" by the trained model. While a normal input is
reconstructed with high accuracy, an adversarial input usually gives a high
"reconstruction error." This error is used as an anomaly score.31
● Secure Learning Algorithms: This category includes various improvements made in data
preprocessing and model architecture.
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processing the input before feeding it to the model. For example, reducing the color
depth of an image with feature squeezing or blurring the image narrows the area
where the attacker can make fine adjustments.29
○ Data Augmentation: Artificially enriching the training set by applying simple
transformations such as random cropping, rotation, and changing the hue to
existing data increases the model's resilience to more diverse and noisy inputs.29
○ Ensemble Methods: Combining the predictions of multiple models with different
architectures or trained on different data subsets, instead of a single powerful
model, increases the robustness of the overall system. It is more difficult for an
attack to fool all models at the same time.22
Case Analysis: Noise Immunity for Autonomous Vehicle Sensors
Autonomous vehicles are complex cyber-physical systems that combine data from different
sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, and radar to perceive their environment 360 degrees. While
this multi-modality offers the advantage of compensating for the weaknesses of a single
sensor (e.g., the camera being affected by bad weather conditions or low light), it also
creates new and complex attack surfaces at the sensor fusion stage.8 Attackers can mislead
perception systems by adding fake points to LiDAR point clouds 35 or by changing the
frequency of radar signals.8 Providing resilience against these threats requires both
processing sensor data and strengthening learning algorithms.

One of the technical solutions developed in this context is noise filtering, inspired by signal
processing principles. Most adversarial attacks work by adding high-frequency, low-
amplitude noise to the input. While the human visual system largely filters out such high-
frequency details, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are highly sensitive to these
perturbations. To address this vulnerability, a low-pass filter, such as a Gaussian filter, can
be applied to the input. This filter suppresses high-frequency components, including
adversarial noise, and "cleans" the image. Although this process blurs the image to some
extent, it significantly reduces the effect of the attack. This approach reduces the problem of
adversarial attacks to the more manageable problem of "blurred image recognition." The
model can be made robust to this situation by being trained with blurred images during the
training phase.38

Beyond noise filtering, more advanced training strategies are also available. Frameworks
such as INTACT and CGAL combine meta-learning and curriculum learning approaches with
adversarial training. These strategies train the model first with simple noise patterns and
then gradually increase the difficulty level to make it progressively resilient to more complex
and realistic perturbations. This allows the model to gain robustness more targetedly and
efficiently.40 Similarly, architectures like

SVF (Sequential View Fusion) learn physical invariants that are not easily manipulated by
fake data injection (e.g., occlusion of objects by each other) by combining different

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representations of LiDAR point clouds (e.g., 3D point cloud and 2D front view), thereby
increasing resistance to spoofing attacks.37 This multi-layered defense approach is critical for
increasing the resilience of autonomous vehicles' perception systems to manipulations in
both the digital and physical worlds.

In-depth Analysis of Attack and Defense Dynamics

The interaction between adversarial attacks and defenses offers important insights into the
nature of artificial intelligence security. This dynamic points to an area where static solutions
are inadequate and threats are constantly evolving.

One of the most prominent dynamics in this field is an "arms race."24 Each new defense
mechanism creates a new obstacle for attackers to overcome, which in turn pushes them to
develop more sophisticated attack methods. For example, defenses developed against
simple, single-step attacks like FGSM, which were effective at first, led to the emergence of
more powerful, multi-step (iterative) attacks like PGD. Similarly, defenses like gradient
masking can be overcome by black-box transfer attacks or query-based attacks that do not
require gradient information.13 At the core of this cycle lies the "generalization gap" of
adversarial training, in particular; that is, the risk that a model, while becoming robust
against specific types of adversarial examples it has encountered in training, may remain
vulnerable to new types of attacks it has never seen before.26 This shows that the security of
artificial intelligence agents cannot be achieved with a one-time solution, but rather requires
a continuous adaptation and a layered defense strategy. Security should be treated as a
dynamic process where proactive mechanisms that strengthen the model itself (like
adversarial training) and reactive mechanisms that detect threats at runtime (like anomaly
detection) coexist.

Another important point is the increasing blurring of the line between the digital and
physical worlds. Adversarial attacks, initially seen only as a theoretical vulnerability in the
digital environment 10, have now become concrete and dangerous threats in the physical
world.9 Simple tapes or stickers placed on traffic signs to fool the perception systems of
autonomous vehicles are the most striking examples of this transition.15 This proves how
powerful the principle of "transferability" is, that is, the potential for an attack that works on
one model to also work on a different model. This reinforces the fact that autonomous
agents should no longer be considered as mere software, but as "cyber-physical systems"
that must be considered as a whole with their sensors and actuators. Future attacks are
expected to target not only digital data but also the physical operating principles of sensors
(e.g., directly manipulating the frequency of radar signals).8

Finally, the emergence of multi-agent systems (MAS) has carried the security paradigm
beyond individual agents, revealing a systemic fragility. While protecting a single agent is
difficult, the attack surface increases exponentially in a system where multiple agents
cooperate. It is possible for an attacker to sabotage the collective behavior of the entire

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swarm by taking over the weakest link in the system (the least secure agent) or by
manipulating the communication channels between agents.12 Studies like M-Spoiler have
shown how even the behavior of one agent exhibiting "stubborn" or erroneous information
dissemination can steer the decision of the entire group to a wrong conclusion.20 This reveals
that the security of multi-agent systems is not a simple sum of the security of individual
agents. Security must include inter-agent trust protocols, encryption of communication
channels, and anomaly detection mechanisms that can detect when an agent's behavior
deviates from the collective norm. This suggests that decentralized "zero-trust" architectures
that verify every interaction may also be a valid and necessary model for the security of
multi-agent systems.

9.1.2: System Security and Access Controls

The security of artificial intelligence agents is not limited to resilience against external
adversarial attacks. The agents themselves are a potential source of risk due to the powers
they possess and the resources they access. Especially agents that can act autonomously can
cause serious damage as a result of unintentional errors or malicious takeovers if left
unchecked. Therefore, system-level security mechanisms that strictly supervise the activities
of agents, limit their powers, and isolate their actions are an indispensable part of a reliable
agent architecture.

Isolation and Encapsulation (Sandboxing) Architectures

It is an unacceptable risk for an artificial intelligence agent, especially one driven by Large
Language Models (LLMs) and potentially capable of generating its own code, to have
unlimited powers on the main system.45 Running untrusted or dynamically generated code
can endanger the integrity of the system, the confidentiality of data, and the security of the
network.

Sandboxing is a basic technology used to manage this risk. A sandbox is a restricted and
controlled virtual environment where the agent or the code it runs is isolated from the main
operating system and other critical resources.46 If the agent exhibits unexpected or malicious
behavior, this behavior remains within the boundaries of the sandbox and cannot harm the
main system.

Sandboxing applications for agents are based on various technologies that differ in the level
of isolation they provide and their performance costs:
● Container-Based Isolation (e.g., Docker): This approach provides isolation using
operating system-level virtualization. It takes advantage of Linux kernel features such as
namespaces (to separate resources like processes, network, user ID) and cgroups (to
limit resource usage like CPU, memory). Containers are popular due to their fast startup
and low performance overhead. Services like OpenAI's ChatGPT Data Analyst (formerly
Code Interpreter) use Docker containers to run user-provided Python code.49 However,

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the main weakness of this method is that all containers share the same host kernel. This
means that a vulnerability in the kernel can be exploited to escape from a container and
infiltrate the main system or other containers.51
● Kernel-Level Virtualization (e.g., gVisor): This technology is designed to strengthen the
security boundary of containers. gVisor creates a "user-mode kernel" layer between the
application and the host kernel. Instead of directly forwarding the system calls (syscalls)
made by the application to the main kernel, it captures, filters, and processes these calls
in its own secure environment. This significantly reduces the attack surface on the host
kernel and can be integrated with container runtimes like Docker.48 This additional
security layer may cause some performance degradation compared to standard
containers.
● Lightweight Micro-VMs (e.g., Firecracker): This approach offers the strongest level of
isolation through hardware virtualization. Each sandbox runs as a completely
independent virtual machine (VM) with its own minimal kernel. Technologies like
Firecracker, developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), can launch a new micro-VM in
less than a second (usually 150-200 milliseconds).51 This speed makes it possible to
create a new and completely isolated environment instantly for each user request or
agent task. Platforms like E2B use this technology to provide developers with secure
and scalable code execution environments for AI agents.51
● WebAssembly (Wasm): Wasm is a portable binary instruction format designed to run
inside the browser. By taking advantage of the browser's natural sandboxing
capabilities, it offers an environment isolated from the operating system and the user's
local file system. This architecture is particularly useful for reducing the risks of running
code on the server side and shifting the execution responsibility to the client. Python
code generated by an LLM can be run securely directly in the user's browser with a
Wasm-based Python interpreter like Pyodide.49

The following table summarizes the main features of these isolation technologies and the
trade-offs between them.

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Technology Isolation Level Performance Security Typical Use Case

Impact Boundary

Docker Operating System Low Shared Kernel General-purpose

Containers Level application
isolation, rapid
development and
deployment (e.g.,
ChatGPT Code
Interpreter) 49

gVisor User-Mode Kernel Medium System Call Environments

(Syscall) Interface where untrusted
code is run and
more security is
required than
standard
containers 48

Firecracker Micro- Hardware Low-Medium Hypervisor High-security, per-

VMs Virtualization request isolated
environments
(e.g., serverless
functions, AI
agent code
execution) 51

WebAssembly Browser Level Low Browser Sandbox Secure code

(Wasm) execution on the
client side,
reducing server
load and risk 53

Table 9.2:
Comparison of
Agent Isolation
(Sandboxing)
Technologies. This
table compares
the four main
technologies used
to isolate the
actions of artificial
intelligence
agents in terms of
the level of
security they

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provide, their
impact on
performance, and
their ideal use
scenarios.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and the Principle of Least Privilege

Isolating the environment in which an agent operates is not enough; it is also necessary to
strictly control what it can do within that environment. The Principle of Least Privilege forms
the basis of this control. According to this principle, a user or agent should be given the
absolute minimum authority and resource access necessary to perform its task.34 Granting
an agent broad powers "just in case" dangerously increases the scope of damage that can
occur in the event of a security breach or unintentional error, i.e., the "blast radius."46

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is the most common and effective method for
systematically applying the principle of least privilege. In RBAC, permissions are not assigned
directly to individual agents, but to predefined roles. Agents are then given these roles. This
approach greatly simplifies access management and increases consistency.54 The
implementation of RBAC usually involves the following steps:
1. Defining Roles: Logical roles are created based on the functions of the agents. For
example, in a smart factory environment, roles such as machine_monitoring_agent,
maintenance_scheduling_agent, or quality_control_agent can be defined.54
2. Mapping Permissions: Each role is assigned the specific permissions required to
perform its task. For example, the machine_monitoring_agent role may have only read-
only permission to sensor databases, while the maintenance_scheduling_agent role
may have write permission to the maintenance request system.
3. Applying Policies: These roles and permissions are converted into technical policies
through identity and access management platforms such as Google Cloud IAM or AWS
IAM. Agents usually work with a special "service account" identity assigned to them,
and the relevant roles are assigned to this account.54

Beyond traditional static RBAC, modern approaches advocate for dynamic and context-
aware access control. In this model, an agent's permissions are not fixed; they can be
adjusted in real time according to the agent's current task, the sensitivity of the data it is
trying to access, the time of day, or detected abnormal behavior.46 This is compatible with
the "Just-in-Time" (JIT) security model, in which permissions are not granted permanently,
but are assigned temporarily only for the duration of a task and are revoked as soon as the
task is finished.34

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Case Analysis: Access Control Policies in a Smart Factory Environment

Smart factories are complex environments where Operational Technology (OT) – that is,
systems that control physical processes (PLCs, SCADA) – and Information Technology (IT) –
that is, corporate data processing systems (ERP, cloud analytics) – networks are increasingly
intertwined. This convergence offers great opportunities for efficiency and automation,
while at the same time leaving critical industrial processes vulnerable to cyber threats.

The Purdue Model and Agent Positioning: The Purdue Model, a reference architecture for
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security, creates a defense-in-depth strategy by dividing IT
and OT networks into functional layers.59 This model defines the OT layers at the bottom,
where physical processes (Level 0) and control devices (Level 1-2) are located, and the IT
layers at the top, where the corporate network (Level 4-5) is located. Between these two
worlds, there is a

Demilitarized Zone (Industrial Demilitarized Zone - IDMZ) (Level 3.5) to ensure controlled
data exchange.60

An AI agent that performs predictive maintenance by analyzing sensor data from machines
on the production line 63 needs both real-time sensor data from the OT network (Level 0/1)
and historical data and analytical models from the IT network. The location of such an agent
must strike a balance between security and functionality. Generally, since these agents
require intensive computation and IT resources, they are placed not in the depths of the OT
network, but in the

Level 3.5 (IDMZ) or Level 4 (Enterprise Zone) layer.60 Industry leaders like Siemens offer
dual-firewalled and tightly controlled IDMZ solutions that comply with international
standards such as IEC 62443 for such scenarios.62

Specific Access Control Policies: Assuming the agent is located in the IDMZ, the following
strict access control policies and firewall rules must be applied to enable it to perform its
task without harming the OT network:
● Data Flow Direction and Restrictions: The basic rule is that data flow is one-way from
OT to IT. The agent is allowed to read data from SCADA servers at Level 2 or Data
Historians at Level 3, but it must be strictly prevented from writing commands to
control systems (like PLCs). This is known as "read-only" access.67
● Network Segmentation and Firewall Rules: The firewalls that separate the IDMZ from
the OT and IT networks must be configured to allow only predefined and strictly
necessary communication. For example, only traffic from the predictive maintenance
agent's IP address to a specific port on the SCADA server (e.g., TCP 4840 for OPC UA) is
allowed. All other traffic is blocked by default (deny-by-default).60
● Protocol Inspection: Modern next-generation firewalls (NGFW) can inspect not only
ports and IP addresses but also application-layer protocols (Deep Packet Inspection -
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DPI). This ensures that the agent only sends allowed OPC UA read commands, while
blocking potentially dangerous write commands.69
● Human-in-the-Loop: When the agent detects an anomaly or a potential failure, it
should not take an action autonomously. Instead, it should send a notification to a
human operator or create a maintenance request in the enterprise resource planning
(ERP) system. The final decision and action must always be approved by a human.70
Implications for System Security and Autonomy
The integration of artificial intelligence agents into systems introduces new dynamics that
fundamentally shake traditional cybersecurity paradigms. These dynamics are shaped
around the agent itself becoming a security vulnerability and the inevitable tension between
security and autonomy.

Traditional cybersecurity understanding generally focuses on malicious actors trying to

infiltrate the system from the outside. However, autonomous agents change this equation;
they are actors with legitimate powers inside the system. This situation creates a new threat
vector: If an agent is taken over, for example, by a "prompt injection" attack 45 or another
method, the attacker takes over all the legitimate powers that this agent has. This is a
paradigm shift that carries the "insider threat" risk from humans to machines. Therefore, the
agent security strategy should not only prevent external attacks but also focus on limiting
the damage that will occur in the event of a breach, that is, minimizing the "blast radius."
Mechanisms such as the principle of least privilege 34, just-in-time (JIT) access 34, and
granular role-based access controls (RBAC) 54 become vital in this context. An agent's identity
should be managed and audited as a separate entity in its own right, independent of the
identity of the user who calls it.45

This security need creates a natural tension with autonomy, which is the agent's basic reason
for existence. As an agent's autonomy, that is, its ability to make decisions and take action
on its own, increases, the potential security risk also increases in direct proportion.45 Security
measures such as sandboxing, strict access controls, and tight auditing manage this risk by
restricting the agent's room for maneuver. However, these restrictions also limit the agent's
flexibility, adaptability, and autonomy. This situation reveals a fundamental trade-off in
agent design: Maximum security generally means minimum autonomy, and vice versa. An
"ideal" agent architecture should be able to manage this balance dynamically, rather than
establishing it statically. For example, while an agent can work with a higher autonomy when
performing low-risk and routine tasks, its powers should be instantly restricted and subject
to human approval when it comes to accessing sensitive data or a critical physical action.
This emphasizes the importance of transitioning from static permission models to context-
aware and adaptive access control systems 46 that adjust permissions in real time according
to the context in which the agent is located (task, data sensitivity, threat level).

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9.2 Ethical Principles and Regulations

The security of artificial intelligence agents goes beyond technical robustness and protection
against cyberattacks, and also brings with it fundamental questions about how these agents
should behave in society. The decisions of an agent must be not only correct and efficient,
but also fair, transparent, and compatible with human values. This section examines the
ethical frameworks that should guide the autonomous decision-making processes of agents
and the regulatory mechanisms that place these frameworks on a legal basis.

9.2.1: Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks

How an autonomous agent will make the "right" decision, especially in unforeseen or
morally dilemmatic situations, is one of the most fundamental problems of artificial
intelligence ethics. The search for an answer to this problem has shown an evolution from
simple rule-based approaches to complex principle sets that center on human well-being.

The Evolution of Ethical Frameworks: From Asimov to the IEEE

● Asimov's Laws of Robotics: The Three Laws of Robotics, put forward by science fiction
writer Isaac Asimov in 1942, are the first and most popular thought experiment in this
field.73 These laws present a hierarchical rule set:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to
come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders
would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict
with the First or Second Law.75

The greatest contribution of Asimov's laws is that they popularized the idea that
machines should also be subject to ethical principles.75 However, these laws
contain serious vulnerabilities in practical application. The fact that concepts such
as "harm" and "human" are open to interpretation and that they cannot resolve
gray areas where the laws conflict with each other (for example, the obligation to
choose between causing harm to two different people) has revealed the
inadequacy of this rule-based approach.73
● IEEE's Ethically Aligned Design (EAD) Approach: Unlike Asimov's strict rules, the global
initiative launched by the IEEE offers a more flexible and principle-based framework.
The main purpose of EAD is to ensure that technology increases not only economic
growth but, first and foremost, human well-being and dignity.76 This approach is
inspired by Aristotle's concept of "eudaimonia" (the flourishing of humanity) and
positions technology as a tool that serves this purpose.79 EAD adopts a series of
fundamental principles such as human rights, transparency, accountability, prevention
of biases, and data privacy.78
● IEEE P7000 Standard Series: This is a series of standard projects that aim to transform
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these high-level principles put forward by EAD into concrete, actionable, and
measurable standards for engineers and developers. For example:
○ P7001 (Transparency): Aims to ensure that it is always possible to find out why an
autonomous system made a specific decision.76
○ P7002 (Data Privacy): Creates a standard for data privacy processes.80
○ P7003 (Algorithmic Bias): Provides guidance on how to detect and reduce
algorithmic biases.82

These standards serve as an important bridge by transforming abstract ethical

discussions into practical and verifiable requirements that can be integrated into
system design.76
Algorithmic Application of Fundamental Ethical Theories
Modern ethical frameworks are often fed by classical philosophical theories. Each of these
theories suggests a different decision-making logic and therefore a different algorithmic
application for autonomous agents.
● Utilitarianism: The basic principle of this approach is that the moral rightness of an
action is measured by the total benefit or happiness produced by its consequences. The
most correct action is the one that produces the best result (the highest benefit, the
least harm) for the greatest number of beings.84 Algorithmically, this can be modeled as
a
cost-benefit analysis or an optimization of a cost function. An agent calculates the
possible outcomes of each of its potential actions and the probabilities of these
outcomes. It assigns a "utility" or "cost" value to each outcome and chooses the action
that maximizes the expected total utility.86
● Deontology: Unlike utilitarianism, deontology evaluates the rightness of an action not
according to its consequences, but according to the conformity of the action itself to
certain moral rules or duties.84 Rules such as "never lie" or "never harm an innocent
person" are absolute duties that should not be violated, regardless of the
consequences. Algorithmically, this is implemented by imposing
hard constraints on the agent's action space. The agent's optimization process is limited
to solutions that will not violate these deontological rules.89
● Virtue Ethics: This approach focuses not on rules or consequences, but on the
"character" of the agent performing the action. The aim is to develop a character that
exhibits virtues such as compassion, justice, courage, and honesty.84 This is the most
difficult approach to implement algorithmically. It usually requires a
hybrid of predefined rules (top-down) and learning from examples (bottom-up), for
example, rewarding virtuous behaviors with reinforcement learning.84

The following table presents a comparative analysis of these three basic ethical approaches
in the context of autonomous agents.

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Feature Utilitarianism Deontology Virtue Ethics

Core Principle Maximize the total Adhere to moral rules Exhibit a virtuous
utility of outcomes and duties character

Decision Logic The best result for the The Whether the action
greatest number of rightness/wrongness of originates from a
beings the action itself virtuous agent

Algorithmic Application Cost/benefit Rule-based systems, Hybrid approaches,

optimization, expected hard constraints reinforcement learning
utility calculation with rewards

Strengths Flexible, focused on Provides clear, Offers a context-

finding the best predictable rules sensitive, flexible, and
outcome for the holistic approach
situation

Weaknesses Can violate minority Cannot offer solutions Difficult to define and
rights, difficult to when rules conflict, is measure,
measure utility rigid computationally
complex

Table 9.3: Comparative

Analysis of Ethical
Decision-Making
Frameworks. This table
compares the
fundamental principles,
decision logic,
algorithmic application
methods, and the
strengths and
weaknesses of the three
main philosophical
ethical theories in the
context of autonomous
agents.

Dilemma Analysis 1: Autonomous Vehicle Accidents and the "Trolley Problem"

The "Trolley Problem" is a classic thought experiment at the center of autonomous vehicle
ethics discussions. The scenario involves an unavoidable accident where the vehicle is faced
with the option of hitting five people or turning the steering wheel and hitting one person,
thus causing fewer casualties.74

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However, automotive industry experts like Volvo and many researchers argue that this
scenario does not reflect real-world conditions and is a misleading and useless dead end for
the development of autonomous systems.94 The main reasons for this are:
1. Avoidance-Focused Design: Autonomous vehicles are designed to never encounter
such dilemmas. The basic design goal is to always leave a safe following distance,
constantly monitor the environment, and stay away from unavoidable accident
situations by minimizing all foreseeable risks.93
2. Physical Realities: In a real accident, a vehicle has neither the time nor sufficient data to
accurately calculate the consequences of different trajectories (who will live, who will
die). Considering factors such as tire grip, braking distance, and collision dynamics, the
safest and least risky action is usually to stay in the current lane and apply maximum
braking, rather than creating other potential dangers by turning the steering wheel.95
This is a physical risk minimization strategy rather than an ethical choice.

Nevertheless, if a choice were theoretically necessary, ethical frameworks would offer

different solutions. A utilitarian approach would prefer the option that would lead to the
least loss of life (sacrificing one person), while a deontological approach might refuse to turn
the steering wheel, prohibiting the action of "actively harming an innocent person." At this
point, the opinion of regulatory authorities such as the German Ethics Commission becomes
important. The commission has stated that autonomous vehicles should not assign a "value"
to people by classifying them according to age, gender, or any other characteristic, but
should instead try to protect all human lives equally.94 This shows that a deontological
principle of "do no harm" and "equality" prevails over a simple utilitarian "counting lives"
calculation.

Dilemma Analysis 2: Artificial Intelligence in Medical Triage

In emergency departments (EDs), especially in mass casualty events or epidemics, triage, the
process of determining the treatment priority of patients when available resources (doctors,
beds, ventilators, etc.) cannot meet the demand, is of vital importance. Traditional triage
systems are often based on the subjective assessments of nurses, which can lead to
inconsistencies under high density, fatigue, and stress.97

Artificial intelligence agents offer the potential to improve this process. An AI triage system
can analyze huge datasets including the patient's vital signs, symptoms, medical history, and
demographic information in seconds to predict the patient's risk of deterioration,
hospitalization, or death. These risk scores can be used to create a more objective and
consistent triage ranking.97

However, this technology also brings with it serious ethical dilemmas:

● Algorithmic Bias: AI models learn and can even magnify the biases in the data they are
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a certain ethnic or socioeconomic group are taken less seriously, the AI system can also
repeat this discriminatory pattern by systematically classifying these groups as lower
priority.7 This is a violation of the fundamental principles of justice and equality.
● Transparency and Trust: Why did an AI agent classify a patient as high or low risk? If the
logic behind this decision cannot be understood due to the "black box" 101, clinicians will
have difficulty trusting the system and accountability will disappear in the event of an
erroneous decision.7
● Utilitarianism and Equality Conflict: An AI system can be optimized to save the greatest
number of lives by using resources most efficiently (a utilitarian goal). This may mean
prioritizing patients with the highest probability of survival or whose treatment requires
the least resources. However, this creates the risk of leaving behind patients who are in
a more serious condition, need more complex and costly care, or have a lower
probability of survival. This may conflict with the basic principle of medicine to provide
equal care to every individual.7

The solution to these dilemmas lies in positioning AI not as an autonomous decision-maker,

but as a decision support tool. The risk scores and recommendations produced by AI should
be presented for the evaluation of an experienced health professional (doctor or nurse) who
will make the final decision. This "human-in-the-loop" approach takes advantage of the
efficiency of AI while ensuring that human judgment and ethical evaluation have the final
say.7 Ethical frameworks should determine the rules and limits of this sensitive human-AI
collaboration.

In-depth Implications for Ethical Decision-Making

The development of ethical frameworks for autonomous agents reflects an evolution from
simple rule sets to more complex, value-based, and computational models. This evolution
offers fundamental insights into the nature of ethics and its relationship with technology.

First, a clear shift from rules to values is observed in ethical agent design. Asimov's rigid and
fragile laws 73 have proven inadequate in the face of the unpredictable complexity and moral
gray areas of the real world. In contrast, modern frameworks such as the IEEE's Ethically
Aligned Design (EAD) approach 76 center on fundamental

values and principles such as "human well-being," "transparency," and "accountability,"

rather than dictating specific actions. This places more flexibility and responsibility on
developers to translate these universal values into their specific application contexts. This
paradigm shift reframes ethical behavior not as coding a series of "if-then" rules, but as a
complex optimization problem that represents a system of values. This requires the agent
not only to avoid prohibited actions but also to proactively promote positive and valuable
outcomes. This reflects a transition from the deontological principle of "do no harm" to the
utilitarian principle of "maximize good," but this transition is limited by strict deontological
rules such as fundamental human rights.

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Second, with this paradigm shift, ethics is becoming a computational problem. Classical
philosophical concepts such as utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics are no longer just
the subject of abstract discussions, but are turning into concrete algorithmic challenges for
autonomous agents. A utilitarian approach requires a cost/benefit optimization that includes
the probabilities and values of potential outcomes.84 A deontological approach corresponds
to a constraint satisfaction problem that limits the agent's action space.90 Virtue ethics is a
complex learning problem, possibly where virtuous behaviors are rewarded with techniques
such as reinforcement learning and a "character" policy is learned over time.91 This
transformation makes it necessary for ethical discussions to be conducted not only by
philosophers and lawyers but also by computer scientists and engineers. As much as the
philosophical "correctness" of an ethical framework, its algorithmic

computability, scalability, and verifiability are becoming critical success factors. This points
to the birth of a completely new research area that can be called "computational ethics" or
"ethical algorithms" in the future.

9.2.2: Responsibility and Accountability

Who is responsible for the actions of an autonomous agent is one of the most intricate
problems of artificial intelligence law and ethics. A reliable artificial intelligence ecosystem
not only ensures that agents make the right decisions, but also requires being able to
understand the reasons for these decisions when wrong decisions are made, to compensate
for the consequences, and to identify those responsible. This is a multi-layered
accountability problem that necessitates the combined operation of transparency,
auditability, and robust legal frameworks.

Transparency and Explainability (Explainable AI - XAI)

The prerequisite for accountability is transparency. If the logic behind an agent's decision
cannot be understood, it becomes impossible to determine who will be held responsible for
that decision. Modern artificial intelligence models, especially deep learning, often operate
as "black boxes" due to the complex interactions between millions of parameters.6 This
opacity makes it difficult to distinguish whether the source of an error when an agent makes
a mistake is faulty data, a flawed algorithm, or an unexpected environmental interaction.105

Explainable AI (XAI) is a set of techniques and methodologies that aim to solve this black box
problem. The purpose of XAI is to explain in a way that is understandable to humans how a
model reached a specific decision. This helps developers to debug errors, regulators to audit
compliance, and end users to trust the system. The main XAI techniques are:
● LIME (Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations): This technique, instead of
trying to explain the model as a whole, produces a local explanation for a single specific
decision. To do this, it creates new data points by creating small perturbations around
the input to be explained. Then, in this small and local region, it trains a simpler and

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naturally interpretable model (for example, a linear regression or a decision tree) that
mimics the behavior of the complex model. The interpretation of this simple model
provides an approach to why the original model made that single decision.107
● SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations): Inspired by Shapley values in cooperative game
theory, this method assigns a fair "contribution share" to each feature that contributes
to a decision. SHAP shows in a mathematically consistent way in which direction and
how much each feature affects the final decision by calculating the marginal
contribution of a feature in different combinations. Its biggest advantage is that it can
provide both local (for a single decision) and global (for the model as a whole)
explanations.107

XAI is a critical tool in determining legal responsibility. In an accident involving an

autonomous vehicle, XAI techniques can reveal why the vehicle accelerated instead of
braking (for example, which sensor data or algorithmic feature triggered this decision). This
information is vital evidence in determining whether the accident was caused by a design
error, a sensor failure, or an unforeseen situation, and thus in determining whether the
responsibility belongs to the manufacturer, the user, or another party.105

Auditable Decision Logging Mechanisms

Accountability requires that actions and decisions be traceable and auditable
retrospectively. Therefore, it is a legal and ethical obligation for autonomous agents to
record their activities in detail (logging).34 These records are used to answer the questions
"what, when, why, and how did it happen?" in a post-mortem analysis, an audit, or a legal
investigation.

The best practices and standards for an effective audit trail mechanism are:
● Comprehensive and Structured Record Keeping: Logs should reflect not only the
agent's final action but the entire decision process. This should include the following
components:
○ Decision Metadata: The timestamp when the decision was made, the input
parameters that triggered the decision, the version of the model used, and the
agent's state at that moment.113
○ Process Trail: How the data was processed on the way to the decision, which
algorithmic steps were taken, and which intermediate results were produced.113
○ Outcome Records: The final output produced, alternative options that were
evaluated but not chosen, and metrics regarding the expected or actual impact of
the decision.113
● International Standards and Frameworks:
○ NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF): This voluntary framework, developed
by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, provides a roadmap for
organizations to manage AI risks. It consists of four main functions: Govern, Map,

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Measure, and Manage. The framework defines accountability and transparency as

fundamental features of trustworthy artificial intelligence and emphasizes the
importance of continuous monitoring, testing, and documentation throughout the
entire lifecycle.114
○ ISO/IEC 23894 (AI Risk Management): This international standard provides
guidance for the management of risks specific to artificial intelligence. Based on
general risk management standards such as ISO 31000, it requires the systematic
identification, evaluation, handling, and monitoring of risks throughout the lifecycle
of AI systems (from design to retirement). This process naturally necessitates the
keeping and documentation of auditable records.119
Legal Frameworks and Regulations: The EU AI Act
The most powerful way to ensure accountability is to make it a legal obligation. The most
comprehensive and pioneering regulation in this field, the European Union Artificial
Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), presents a framework that classifies artificial intelligence
systems according to the risk they pose to society and individuals and imposes obligations
accordingly.123

The law adopts a risk-based approach:

● Unacceptable Risk: Systems that violate fundamental rights, such as social scoring, are
completely banned.
● High Risk: Systems used in areas such as autonomous vehicles, medical devices, critical
infrastructure management, recruitment, and credit rating, which may have significant
effects on human health, safety, or fundamental rights, fall into this category. These
systems are subject to the strictest rules.124
● Limited Risk: Systems like chatbots are subject to transparency obligations that require
users to know that they are interacting with an AI.124
● Minimal Risk: No additional legal obligation is imposed for systems like video games.

The main transparency and accountability obligations imposed on providers and distributors
of high-risk AI systems are:

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Obligation Relevant Article Description

Risk Management System Article 9 A continuous process must be

established to identify, evaluate,
and mitigate risks throughout the
entire lifecycle of the system.126

Data and Data Governance Article 10 Training, validation, and testing

datasets must be relevant,
representative, error-free, and
complete; they must be managed
to address potential biases.126

Technical Documentation Article 11 Comprehensive technical

documents detailing the design,
purpose, capabilities, limitations,
and risks of the system must be
prepared before the system is
placed on the market.125

Record-Keeping (Logging) Article 12 The system must have the

technical capability to
automatically record events (e.g.,
period of use, queried database,
results) during its operation.125

Transparency and Information Article 13 Clear, complete, and

understandable instructions for
use regarding the capabilities,
limitations, and risks of the
system must be provided to
distributors (users).125

Human Oversight Article 14 Systems must be designed to

allow people to intervene when
necessary, override decisions, or
stop the system.125

Table 9.4: Obligations for High-

Risk Systems under the EU AI
Act. This table summarizes the
main legal obligations imposed
by the EU AI Act for artificial
intelligence systems classified as
high-risk, their relevant articles,
and their practical meanings.

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This law, by providing for heavy fines of up to 30 million Euros or 6% of global turnover in
case of non-compliance 124, turns accountability into a concrete legal and financial
obligation.

Case Analysis: Erroneous Trades by an Autonomous Trading Agent (Knight Capital Group,
2012)
One of the most striking examples of how devastating the lack of accountability mechanisms
can be is the Knight Capital Group incident on August 1, 2012.
● Summary of the Event: Knight Capital's fully automated trading system, SMARS, sent
millions of erroneous orders within 45 minutes after the markets opened. This
uncontrolled trading activity cost the firm more than $460 million and brought the
company to the brink of bankruptcy in a few days, resulting in its acquisition by a rival
firm.5
● Technical Root Cause: At the heart of the disaster lay a seemingly simple operational
error. During a software update to participate in a new NYSE program, a technician
manually missed one of the eight servers in the deployment.129 On this un-updated
server, a flag that was reused for another purpose in the new code accidentally
triggered old code ("Power Peg") that had been dormant for years and was designed for
testing purposes. This old code was not compatible with the modern mechanism that
tracked whether orders were filled, and therefore it continued to send the same orders
to the market without stopping.129
● Responsibility and Legal Consequences: This event revealed the complex and multi-
layered nature of responsibility.
○ Direct Legal Responsibility: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined
Knight Capital $12 million for violating the Market Access Rule, which requires
reasonable controls and procedures to manage the risks of automated systems. The
SEC report clearly stated that the firm's risk management controls were inadequate,
its code deployment and testing procedures were weak, and it did not have an
effective emergency response plan at the time of the incident.5
○ Distributed Chain of Responsibility: Who was responsible? The developers who left
the faulty code in the system for years? The technician who made the incomplete
deployment? The management who did not supervise these processes and did not
establish a second-eye control mechanism? Traditional legal doctrines (negligence,
product liability) have difficulty addressing the damages created by such complex,
unpredictable, and autonomous systems.105 The Knight Capital case showed that
the fault belonged not to a single person or unit, but to the systemic failure of an
entire organization.128
○ Lessons Learned: This event painfully proved how vital auditable and meaningful
logs, strict change management and testing procedures, automated deployment
tools, and most importantly, effective human oversight and a "kill switch"
mechanism that can instantly stop the system when things go wrong are.128
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In-depth Implications for Accountability

The rise of autonomous agents presents fundamental challenges that require us to rethink
the concepts of responsibility and accountability. These challenges show that accountability
is not just a technical issue and that the legal framework must evolve from being reactive to
proactive.

Events like the Knight Capital case reveal that failures in artificial intelligence systems are
rarely caused by a single line of code.127 Usually, such errors are the cumulative result of a
series of

socio-technical failures such as poor project management, hasty deployment schedules,

inadequate testing protocols, lack of supervision, and a weak corporate risk culture.
Technical solutions such as XAI 107, logging 113, and regulations 123 provide the necessary tools
for transparency and traceability. However, these tools are ineffective without a robust
governance culture to support them. This means that the responsibility for artificial
intelligence agents cannot be placed solely on the engineer who develops the agent or the
end user who uses it. Responsibility is distributed throughout the entire ecosystem where
the agent is designed, developed, tested, deployed, and audited. This shows that it is critical
for organizations not only to implement technical controls but also to establish
organizational structures such as AI ethics boards 134, cross-functional governance teams 135,
and clearly defined chains of responsibility.136 Accountability is an institutional competence
rather than a technical feature.

In connection with this, legal and regulatory frameworks must also undergo a paradigm shift.
Traditional legal systems generally focus on finding the responsible party and compensating
for the damage retrospectively after a harm has occurred (reactive approach).105 However,
the unpredictability and autonomy inherent in artificial intelligence agents 106 make this
reactive approach inadequate. The consequences of an agent's actions can go far beyond the
foresight of its developer. Therefore, new generation regulations such as the EU AI Act shift
the focus to

proactive governance.123 These regulations aim to prevent potential harms from occurring in
the first place by mandating a series of obligations such as risk assessment, technical
documentation, data governance, and human oversight

before systems are placed on the market. This shows that the concept of responsibility is
evolving from "finding who is guilty" to the question of "how do we guarantee that the
system is safe?". This proactive approach will increase the importance of tools such as
mandatory insurance mechanisms 106, third-party certifications 82, and continuous post-
market monitoring.124 The legal framework is transforming from a mechanism that only

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punishes past mistakes into a governance tool that encourages future best practices and
proactively manages risks.

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Conclusion
The security and ethics of artificial intelligence agents are the most critical factors that will
determine the future trajectory of this technology. As this report has shown, these two areas
cannot be considered separately; on the contrary, they are the complementary cornerstones
of the goal of building reliable and socially acceptable autonomous systems. The analysis has
presented a holistic perspective ranging from technical-level vulnerabilities to complex
ethical dilemmas and comprehensive legal frameworks.

In the field of security, the concrete threats posed by adversarial attacks in both the digital
and physical worlds reveal the fragility inherent in the nature of artificial intelligence models.
The dynamic "arms race" between attack and defense proves that static solutions are
inadequate and that security must be a multi-layered process that requires continuous
adaptation. Similarly, the fact that the agents' own actions can be a source of risk has
highlighted the vital importance of isolation techniques such as sandboxing and strict access
controls based on the principle of least privilege. Especially in cyber-physical systems such as
smart factories, structured security architectures like the Purdue Model offer a roadmap for
integrating autonomous agents without harming operational technology networks.

In the field of ethics, the discussion has evolved from simple rule-based approaches to
principle-based frameworks that center on human well-being and fundamental rights.
Modern approaches such as the IEEE's Ethically Aligned Design principles, which follow the
path opened by Asimov's laws, show that ethical decision-making has now become an
optimization and computation problem. Cases such as autonomous vehicle accident
scenarios and the use of artificial intelligence in medical triage have revealed that classical
ethical theories such as utilitarianism and deontology have turned into concrete algorithmic
challenges and that the solution to these dilemmas often requires "human-in-the-loop"
approaches.

Finally, the issue of accountability serves as a bridge that unites the technical and ethical
fields. Examples like the Knight Capital case have shown that errors are rarely caused by a
single technical reason; they are usually the result of systemic governance and audit
deficiencies. This proves that responsibility is a "socio-technical" phenomenon that is
distributed along a chain from developers to users and managers. Proactive regulations such
as the EU AI Act, in response to this challenge, are transforming accountability from a
retrospective blame game into a series of preventive obligations that must be fulfilled while
systems are being designed and deployed. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques and auditable
decision logging mechanisms stand out as indispensable technical tools to meet these new
regulatory and ethical expectations.

Ultimately, fully realizing the potential of artificial intelligence agents is possible not only by
developing smarter algorithms but also by building secure, transparent, and fair ecosystems
in which these algorithms will operate. This is an ongoing effort that requires a continuous
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dialogue and collaboration between technology experts, ethicists, lawyers, and

policymakers.

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10.Artificial Intelligence Agents: New Technologies and

Trends
1: Emerging Agent Technologies
Recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence agents are centred around
two main technological breakthroughs that fundamentally transform the capability set
of these systems. The first is the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) to
perform complex tasks in the digital environment by acquiring autonomous reasoning
and planning capabilities; the second is the emergence of embodied agents that can
perform concrete actions in the physical world by processing multimodal sensor data.
This chapter analyses these two critical trends in technical detail.
1.1.Big Language Model (LLM) Based Agents
The transformation of Large Language Models (LLMs) from traditional text generation
and comprehension tasks to agents that can autonomously plan and execute complex,
multi-step goals is one of the most exciting developments in the field of artificial
intelligence. This transformation demonstrates the potential of AI to bridge the gap
between abstract reasoning and concrete action, and represents a critical step on the
path to artificial general intelligence (AGI) through goal-oriented behaviour and
dynamic adaptive capabilities.1
Basic Mechanisms: Frameworks for Reasoning and Action

Underlying the autonomous capabilities of LLM-based agents are sophisticated

frameworks that link internal reasoning to interaction with the external world. These
mechanisms enable an LLM to transform from a passive system that merely processes
information to an agent that proactively acts to achieve goals.
● Chain-of-Thought (CoT): The starting point of the planning capability of LLM-based
agents is the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) technique. CoT allows an LLM to explicitly
construct intermediate reasoning steps in answering a complex question, allowing
it to break the problem down into smaller and more manageable
chunks.2Whereas standard prompts expect a direct answer from the model, CoT
prompts provide the model with step-by-step examples of how it arrived at the
answer. This allows the model to "think" not only about the final outcome but also
about the logical path to the outcome. This approach has been shown to
dramatically improve model performance, especially on tasks that require multi-
step thinking, such as arithmetic, common sense and symbolic reasoning.2CoT
improves consistency and accuracy on more complex tasks by mimicking the
internal thought process of an LLM, but it has also been observed that its
effectiveness is highly dependent on the scale of the model and in some cases can
negatively affect performance.4
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further by combining the CoT's intrinsic ability to reason with the capacity to
interact (act) with the external world.5ReAct is a conceptualisation of LLMs as
"thought-action-observation" (
thought-action-observation) cycles. In this cycle, the agent first creates a thought
(plan) to solve a task. Then, it performs an action (e.g., querying an API or searching
the web) based on this plan. Finally , it dynamically updates its plan by
incorporating the result of this action (observation from the outside world) into the
next thought step and repeats this cycle until it reaches the goal.6This iterative
structure significantly reduces hallucinations (generating factually incorrect
information), one of the major weaknesses of LLMs, because it allows the agent to
verify its claims by accessing external sources of information.5

The evolution of these mechanisms illustrates a fundamental shift in the capabilities of

artificial intelligence. CoT demonstrated the potential of LLMs as an abstract
"reasoning engine". ReAct transformed this abstract engine into a concrete actor by
equipping it with "tools" (APIs, databases, etc.) that can interact with the outside
world. This is a concrete indicator of the transition from "knowing" intelligence to
"doing" intelligence.
Application Examples and Platforms: AutoGPT
One of the most popular examples of the theoretical frameworks put into practice is
AutoGPT. AutoGPT is an open source autonomous agent platform designed to realise a
high-level goal received from the user without human intervention, using powerful
LLMs such as GPT-4.7
●Technical Structure and Functioning: AutoGPT analyses a general goal received
from the user (e.g., "prepare a report on electric vehicle market trends") and
decomposes it into logical subtasks. To fulfil these tasks, it autonomously
performs a series of actions such as searching the Internet, reading/writing files,
generating and executing code.8More specific AutoGPT-inspired applications,
such as AD-AutoGPT, clearly illustrate the "command library" and "chain of
thought" logic underlying this architecture. The agent uses the appropriate tools
in its library to complete a given task (e.g,
search_and_save_news, summarise_news, lda_topic_modeling) and sequences
them into a pipeline. This process is managed through a prompt that allows the
agent to follow the steps "Question, Thought, Action, Action Input", making the
agent's thought process transparent.10For example, using this structure, AD-
AutoGPT has successfully performed the task of collecting, processing, analysing
and even visualising the results of news about Alzheimer's disease in a completely
autonomous way.7
Capabilities, Limitations and Challenges
LLM-based agents exhibit impressive capabilities in a wide range of areas such as
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collection and analysis of complex scientific narratives 7.

However, this technology has significant limitations and challenges:

● Long-Term Planning and Error Accumulation: Agents struggle to maintain
consistency in long-term tasks and to prevent small errors in multi-step
processes from accumulating over time and leading to task failure.11
● Lack of Dynamic Adaptation: Since LLMs are trained on general-purpose
language modelling rather than being specifically trained for specific tasks, their
decision-making processes are heavily dependent on pre-trained knowledge and
static contexts. This limits their adaptability to dynamic and unprecedented
environments.11
● Memory and Learning Constraints: The limited context window of existing
LLMs prevents agents from effectively remembering and reflecting on past
experiences and learning from them.11
● Reliability and Safety: The hallucinatory tendencies, reliability issues and
potential safety risks of fully autonomous systems are a major concern, especially
in critical applications. Therefore, approaches such as LLM-based human-agent
systems (LLM-HAS) that incorporate human supervision and feedback are being
developed to mitigate the risks of full autonomy.12

This creates a paradox in the field: As the autonomy of agents increases, the potential
impact of their mistakes grows, ironically increasing the need for human supervision.
The endeavour to achieve full autonomy also reveals the limits of autonomy and the
importance of control mechanisms. Therefore, the future trend is expected to be
towards transparent and controllable hybrid systems that work in co-operation with
humans, rather than fully autonomous "black box" agents. Autonomy should not be
considered as an "on/off" switch, but as a dynamic feature that can be adjusted
according to the criticality of the mission and the uncertainty of the environment.

The table below summarises the main LLM agent frameworks examined in this
subsection in comparative terms.

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Table 1: Comparative Analysis of LLM Agent Frameworks

Frame Basic Mechanism Key Features Typical Main Limitations

Application Areas

Chain Thinking Decomposing - Solving multi- Arithmetic - No access to

(CoT) complex problems step problems problems, knowledge of the
by generating - High common sense outside world
step-by-step interpretability reasoning, - Open to
internal symbolic logic hallucinations
- Imitating the
reasoning. tasks.2
thought process - Its effectiveness
of the model depends on the
size of the
model.4

ReAct Combining - Ability to use Knowledge- - May be prone to

internal reasoning external tools intensive question fixed workflows
with external (API, web search) answering, tasks - Limited error
tools through the - Dynamic requiring realtime management and
"Thought-Action- planning and information, task termination
Observation" adaptation simple mechanisms.6
cycle. automation.5
- Reducing
hallucinations

AutoGPT Autonomously - Fully Market research, - Long-term

divide a high-level autonomous content creation, consistency issues
goal into subtasks mission execution software - High API costs
and use a library - Multi-step development, and technical
of tools to project complex data installation
complete these management analysis.7 requirements
tasks.
- Self-coding and - Reliability and
debugging security
concerns.8

1.2.Multimodal and Physical Agents

The next major step in the evolution of AI is to transcend the boundaries of the digital
world and take on an "embodied" form that interacts directly with the physical
environment.
Embodied AI is based on the idea that intelligence emerges not only through abstract
representations, but through the dynamic interaction of a physical body with the
environment.13These agents, like humans, perceive and understand their environment
by combining data from multiple sensory modalities (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.) and
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from a passive input-output system into an active participant that listens to its
environment (Listen), acts to achieve goals (Act) and plans the long-term consequences
of its actions (Reason).14
Multimodal Perception: Sensor Fusion Techniques
In order for physical agents to perceive their environment in a consistent and robust
way, they need to intelligently combine data from different sensors. This process is
called sensor fusion and forms the basis of autonomous systems.15Each sensor has its
own advantages and disadvantages: Cameras provide rich colour and texture
information, LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) provides precise 3D depth
information and is less affected by bad weather.17Radar excels at measuring the speed
of objects. Sensor fusion combines these different information streams to create a
comprehensive and reliable model of the environment that no single sensor can
provide alone.

Three main fusion methodologies have been described in the literature 19:
1. Early Fusion (Data-level Fusion): Raw sensor data are fused before feature
extraction. This approach can capture low-level correlations between modalities
but has challenges such as alignment of sensors and sensitivity to noise.17
2. Late Fusion (Object-level Fusion): Each sensor data is processed separately to
produce high-level outputs such as object lists. These outputs are combined at the
final stage. It is modular but may miss rich interactions between modalities.19
3. Medium/Deep Fusion (Feature-level Fusion): It is the most common approach
today. Feature maps are extracted from each modality and these features are
combined in the middle layers of the neural network. This allows both modality-
specific features to be learnt and complex relationships to be established
between these features.19

Autonomous vehicles are one of the most advanced application areas of sensor fusion.
Modern architectures combine features from different sensors by converting them into
a Bird's-Eye-View (BEV), a 2D map as if looking from the top of the vehicle. The BEV
representation is highly effective for 3D object detection as it ensures that the size and
position of objects are preserved regardless of scale, and makes it easy to align
different sensor data (e.g., camera pixels and LiDAR points) in the same geometric
space.18Approaches such as DeepFusion combine features and create rich multimodal
representations by performing spatial and semantic alignment in this common BEV
space.21
Embodied Action: Navigation and Human Interaction
Perception is a prerequisite for the body to act. Embodied agents must navigate the
world they perceive to achieve their goals and interact with people in a natural way.
● Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN): VLN is an area of research that involves
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following natural language instructions , such as "pick up the red mug from the
kitchen and put it on the table in the living room."24This task can be seen as the
ultimate testing ground, combining the language understanding and planning
ability of LLMs with the physical action capacity of a robot. A successful VLN
agent must build a dynamic mental model of its environment ("world model")
and develop a "human model" to resolve ambiguities and context in human
instructions.26Foundation models play a critical role in building these models, in
particular by providing pre-trained visual representations (e.g., CLIP) and
common sense reasoning (e.g., LLMs) that link objects and language.27
● Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Emotional Intelligence: For physical agents
to be successful in environments full of people, it is not enough for them to
understand commands; they must also be able to interpret human intent, current
activity, and even emotional state.
○ Human Activity Recognition (HAR): It is vital for robots to understand
whether a human is open to interaction (e.g., talking on the phone or
looking at the robot) in order to initiate an appropriate interaction or
postpone a task.28
○ Affective Computing: This discipline enables machines to recognise, interpret
and respond appropriately to human emotions by analysing cues such as
facial expressions, tone of speech, gestures and even physiological signals
(heart rate, skin conductance).30A robot with emotional intelligence can
support a patient more empathetically or make the learning experience more
engaging by understanding when a student is bored.30
Integration and Challenges of Embodied Intelligence
The success of an embodied agent depends on the seamless integration of these
different capabilities. This can be thought of as an "intelligence stack". At the bottom is
the perception layer (sensor fusion), which processes the raw sensor data. Above that
is the action/navigation layer (VLN), which enables movement in the perceived world.
Above that is the task planning layer (the speciality of LLM-based agents), which
organises these actions towards a goal. At the top is the social interaction layer
(HRI/Emotional Computing), which manages fluent and context-appropriate interaction
with people.

For example, when a service robot is given a command like "The boss looks sad, bring
him a coffee", all layers of this stack are activated:
1. Social Layer: Understands that he/she is "sad" by analysing facial expression.
2. Planning Layer: Divides the task into sub-steps: 1. find the kitchen, 2. make coffee,
3. go to the boss's office, 4. deliver the coffee.
3. Navigation Layer: Translates subgoals such as "Go to the kitchen" into
physical movement commands.
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hitting obstacles on the road.

One of the biggest obstacles to this integration is the "sim-to-real gap", the difficulty in
transferring models developed in simulation environments to the real world.32An
algorithm that works perfectly in the sterile environment of simulation often fails when
faced with the sensor noise, unexpected lighting conditions and unpredictable
dynamics of the real world. Multimodal sensor fusion is a critical strategy to bridge this
gap. While a single sensor may fail in certain conditions (e.g., camera in low light or
LiDAR forced on glass surfaces), combining different modalities increases the overall
robustness and reliability of the system. This not only provides a richer perception, but
also acts as a "redundancy" mechanism, helping agents to successfully adapt to the
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2: Advanced Learning and Adaptation Techniques

Advanced learning mechanisms that enable AI agents to go beyond static capabilities,
develop collective intelligence through interaction with other agents, and improve
their performance by adapting to dynamic environments over time are critical to the
future of autonomous systems. This chapter explores two key paradigms in this area:
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), which governs co-operation and
competition in multi-agent systems, and Continuous Learning and Meta-Learning,
which enable lifelong adaptation of agents.
2.1.Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)
In contrast to standard reinforcement learning (RL), where a single agent learns
towards its own goals, Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) addresses a more
complex and realistic scenario where multiple agents learn, collaborate or compete
simultaneously in a shared environment.33In this paradigm, each agent's action affects
not only its own reward, but also the state of the environment and thus the future
rewards of all other agents. This dynamic provides a natural framework for modelling
many real-world problems such as autonomous vehicle traffic, economic markets,
robot teams and complex games.
Case Study: DeepMind AlphaStar
The most tangible proof that MARL can achieve superhuman performance in a complex
strategy game is the AlphaStar system developed by DeepMind. In StarCraft II, an
extremely popular and challenging real-time strategy game among professional
players, AlphaStar has achieved the highest level of Grandmaster rank, surpassing
99.8% of active players.36

The technical innovations behind AlphaStar's success are:

● Neural Network Architecture: The brain of the system is a deep neural network
that takes as input the raw interface data of the game (e.g., location, type,
health status of units) and generates a set of action instructions. This
architecture includes a Transformer hull to model the relational structure
between units, an LSTM kernel to capture the temporal flow of the game, and
an autoregressive policy head to make choices in the complex action space.37
● "The League" Training: AlphaStar's most important contribution is a multi-agent
training methodology called "The League". The process first starts with supervised
learning over anonymised human game logs provided by Blizzard. This allows the
agent to learn basic game strategies and mechanics. Next, these starting agents
are recruited into a league in which they play against each other on a continuous
basis. The league is a dynamic population; new opponents (agents) are
continuously added to the league by branching from existing successful agents.
Each agent tries to maximise the probability of winning against other opponents in
the league. This process of constant competition and adaptation allows a deep

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exploration of the game's vast strategic space, and leads to the evolution of new
and effective counter-strategies, just as human players have done over the
years.36

Main Challenges of MARL

Developing MARL systems involves unique and more challenging problems
compared to single-agent RL:
● Non-stationarity: From an agent's perspective, other agents in the learning
process are part of the environment. As other agents update their policies, the
environment is constantly changing. This means that the agent is trying to learn
against a "moving target" and destabilises the learning process, violating the
static environment assumption underlying single-agent RL algorithms.34
● Multi-agent Credit Assignment (MACA): Especially in fully collaborative
scenarios, agents often receive a common reward signal that reflects the overall
performance of
the team. In this case, it is extremely difficult to determine how much the
individual action of which agent contributed to this joint success or failure.34For
example, after a goal scored in a football match, it is difficult to quantitatively
separate the contribution of the midfielder who passes the ball or the other
player who distracts the opponent as well as the striker who scores the goal.
Techniques such as difference rewards or value decomposition have been
developed to solve this problem.34
● Scalability and Communication: As the number of agents increases, the joint
action space grows exponentially, making it impossible to manage all agents with
a single centralised controller. For this reason, the Centralized Training with
Decentralized Execution (CTDE) paradigm is commonly used in MARL.38In this
approach, agents are trained in a centralised manner by accessing additional
information during training, such as observations or intentions of other agents.
Only after the training is completed, during the execution phase, does each agent
make decisions in a decentralised manner based solely on their local observations.
Learning effective and efficient communication protocols is critical to overcome
these difficulties and achieve truly coordinated behaviour.43
Application Areas: Autonomous Vehicles and Drone Swarms
MARL's principles find a wide range of applications, from autonomous vehicles
collectively optimising traffic flow 38to drone swarms performing tasks such as search
and rescue in a coordinated manner 46. For example, autonomous vehicles can choose
routes by taking into account not only their own journey times but also those of other
vehicles, thereby reducing overall traffic congestion. Similarly, a swarm of drones can
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At this point, the potential of LLMs to solve the main challenges of MARL emerges, in
particular the coordination and communication problems. Traditional MARL agents
typically learn low-level actions (e.g., "turn left" or "speed up") based on numerical
reward signals.
This may be insufficient to ensure effective coordination, especially in complex social
dilemmas and situations requiring long-term planning. LLMs, on the other hand, with
their natural language understanding, common sense reasoning and planning
capabilities, can serve as a high-level layer of "social intelligence" for MARL
systems.48For example, an LLM can formulate high-level strategic plans such as "You
cover the left flank, I will attack the centre" and communicate these plans to other
agents in symbolic language. This could simplify the credit assignment problem by
clarifying each agent's role and expectations, and alleviate the non-stationarity
problem by making agents' intentions more predictable. Future MARL systems are
likely to be hybrid, using traditional RL algorithms for fast reactions at the lower level
and LLMs for long-term strategy, communication and coordination at the upper level.
2.2.Continuous Learning and Meta-Learning
For AI agents to operate autonomously and effectively in the real world, they need to
move beyond static, one-off learning. The world is dynamic, tasks change and new
knowledge is constantly emerging. This subsection examines two fundamental and
complementary adaptation mechanisms that enable agents to adapt to this dynamic
nature: Continuous (Lifelong) Learning and Meta-Learning.
Continuous Learning and the Catastrophic Forgetting Problem
Continual Learning or Lifelong Learning is the ability of an artificial intelligence system
to learn incrementally from a non-stationary stream of data, i.e. without forgetting old
knowledge as new knowledge is acquired.49This enables an agent to continuously
improve itself and accumulate knowledge over time.

However, standard neural network architectures do not have this capability innately.
On the contrary, one of their biggest challenges is the phenomenon known as
Catastrophic Forgetting. When a neural network is trained to learn a new task, the
parameters (weights) of the network are updated to minimise the loss function of the
new task. This process inevitably distorts the parameter values that were optimised for
the old tasks. As a result, the network quickly and dramatically loses its performance
on the old tasks while learning the new task.49

Several strategies have been developed in the literature to alleviate this fundamental
problem 49:
● Replay: A representative subset of data from past tasks is stored in memory and
used to periodically retrain the network with new data. This helps the network to
"remember" old information.
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prevent the neural network parameters, which are determined to be critical for
old tasks, from changing drastically when learning new tasks.
● Context-dependent Processing: Architectural approaches that enable the
network to use different sub-paths or parameter sets for different tasks. When a
new task arrives, only the relevant neurons or modules are activated, thus
preserving the information of
other tasks.
Meta-Learning: Learning to Learn
While continuous learning focuses on knowledge accumulation and retention, meta-
learning focuses on the ability to quickly adapt to new information. The main goal of
meta-learning is that a model does not learn to do a single task well, but learns how to
quickly learn new and previously unseen tasks with a very small number of examples
(few-shot learning).22This is also known as "learning to learn".
● Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML): MAML is one of the most fundamental
and effective algorithms in this field. The main idea of MAML is to optimise the
initial parameters (θ) of the model in such a way that, from this starting point,
one or several gradient descent steps with only a few data samples from a new
task will lead to a high generalisation performance on that new task.22In other
words, MAML trains the model in such a way that it is "easy to fine-tune easily
and quickly". This is made possible by the model learning an internal
representation that is shared and generalisable across tasks.22
● Meta-Education Process: MAML works with two nested optimisation loops. In the
inner loop, the current parameters of the model are temporarily updated using a
small number of examples for a given task (Ti). In the outer loop, the actual initial
parameters (θ) are updated so that these "adapted" temporary parameters
maximise test performance on many different tasks.22This prepares the model to
adapt to a distribution of tasks, rather than to a single task.
Real World Applications
These adaptation mechanisms are vital for autonomous agents operating in the real world:
● Industrial Robots and Robotics: Meta-learning allows an industrial robot to
quickly adapt to a new task, such as assembling a new product or picking up a
different object, with only a few demonstrations, without requiring extensive
reprogramming or data collection.54For example, an agricultural robot can use
meta-learning to adapt to a new field with different season, soil and lighting
conditions with a small amount of data.56
● Smart Assistants and Personalisation: By continuously learning from user
interactions, smart assistants can make their recommendations and responses
more personalised and accurate over time. Continuous learning ensures that the
assistant learns new user preferences (e.g. a new taste for a new genre of music )
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valid habits (e.g. the desire to summarise the morning news). This allows the
system to become more relevant, efficient and user-specific over time.57

These two paradigms, continuous learning and meta-learning, although often studied
separately, represent two fundamental and complementary aspects of an agent's
lifelong adaptability. Continuous learning focuses on stability, i.e. retaining past
knowledge, while meta-learning focuses on plasticity, i.e. the flexibility to rapidly
adapt to new situations. An autonomous agent in the real world needs these two
capabilities simultaneously. For example, a home helper robot must integrate slow
and small changes in the layout of the house (e.g., the location of a piece of furniture
changes slightly over time) into its internal model through continuous learning, but
must quickly learn through meta-learning (after several trials) how to safely interact
with a new pet when it suddenly comes home.
Therefore, one of the most important future directions of AI agents research will be to
develop unified learning architectures that can dynamically manage this balance
between stability and plasticity, i.e. intelligently choose its learning strategy (retain
knowledge or adapt quickly) depending on how new and different the situation it
encounters is.

The table below compares these two basic approaches to agent adaptation.

Table 2: Continuous Learning and Meta-Learning Approaches for Agent Adaptation

Criteria Continual Learning Meta-Learning

Core Objective Knowledge accumulation and Rapid adaptability to new tasks

preservation of past knowledge (plasticity).
(Stability).

Main Problem Addressed Catastrophic Forgetting: Few-Shot Learning: Learning a

Forgetting old tasks while new task with very little data.52
learning new tasks.49

Key Techniques - Parameter Regularisation (EWC) - Gradient Based Optimisation

- Replay Mechanisms (MAML)

- Dynamic Architectures.49 - Metric Based Learning

- Memory Augmented
Networks.22

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Application Scenario Digital assistants or Industrial robots that adapt to a

recommendation systems that new assembly or gripping task
personalise over time by after several demonstrations.54
continuously learning from user
interactions.57

Conclusion
This white paper analyses the most current and transformative technologies and
directions in the field of AI agents along four main axes. The analyses reveal that these
areas are not isolated from each other, but rather offer complementary and cross-
cutting pathways to create more capable, autonomous and adaptive agents.

1. Transition from Abstract Reasoning to Concrete Action: Big Language Model (LLM)-
based agents show that artificial intelligence has evolved from being a system that
merely processes and generates information to an actor that can proactively plan and
take action to achieve goals in the digital or physical world. Frameworks such as CoT,
ReAct and AutoGPT form the basic building blocks of this evolution, linking abstract
linguistic reasoning to the use of concrete tools.

2. Embodiment from the Digital to the Physical World: Multimodal and physical
agents enable AI to leave virtual boundaries and interact with the real world. Sensor
fusion, especially with representations such as BEV, enables the agent to perceive its
environment holistically, while areas such as VLN and HRI transform this perception
into meaningful actions and socially coherent interactions. These two main topics (LLM
agents and embodied agents) indicate that future autonomous systems will be
integrated as a "mass of intelligence" that both "thinks" and "does".

3. Evolution from Individual to Collective Intelligence: Multi-agent Reinforcement

Learning (MARL) represents a transition from the optimisation of a single agent to
more complex and realistic scenarios where a group of agents exhibit collective
intelligence in cooperation and competition. While success stories such as AlphaStar
demonstrate the potential in this area, fundamental challenges such as non-
stationarity and credit assignment remain active research topics in the field.
Integrating LLMs into these systems as a high-level strategy and communication layer
is a promising direction for future MARL systems.

4. Adaptation from Static Knowledge to Dynamic Adaptation: Continuous learning

and meta-learning transform agents from static models into dynamic systems that are
lifelong learners and rapidly adapt to changing conditions. These two paradigms
represent the two fundamental facets of an agent's adaptability: stability (knowledge
preservation) and plasticity (rapid learning). Autonomous agents that will succeed in
the real world will need to have unified learning architectures that accommodate these
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two capabilities in a dynamic balance.

Consequently, the future of AI agents lies at the intersection of these four main
technological directions. Integrated systems that combine the planning capabilities of
LLMs,
embodied with multimodal sensor data, act collectively in multi-agent environments,
and can continuously and rapidly adapt to new situations they encounter, constitute
one of the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence research. This integration brings with
it important challenges such as reliability, security, transparency and ethics.
Overcoming these challenges will be key to unlocking the full potential of these
technologies.

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