What are the advantages of Multi Agent Systems?

A MAS has several advantages as opposed to a single agent system. Some of them are elaborated upon below:

• A MAS is decentralized, that is, there no one single point of control. The agents constituting the MAS perform their tasks independently but are able to achieve goals because they communicate and collaborate amongst themselves. Being a distributed system, all problems related to resource limitation, performance bottlenecks, critical failures are avoided.
• If the sources of information are geographically distributed, a MAS is able to retrieve, selectively extract and globally coordinate information from distributed sources.
• The system performance is enhanced because a MAS is more reliable, maintainable, flexible, reusable, robust and extensible as compared to a single agent system.