Application of multi-agent technique in petroleum production

Multi-agent system (MAS) is a set of intelligent agents which can perform common tasks by communicating, cooperating and collaborating with each other. It has the abilities of self-organization, self-learning and self-reasoning. In recent years, MAS is one of the hot researches in the field of distributed artificial intelligence. It is widely used in various aspects of the social field and provides a new idea for complex system. This paper firstly has a review to introduce multi-agent technique implemented in many social fields to show its extensive usability in different social fields and well ability to solve different complex problems. Petroleum production processes possess the characteristics of complexity, multi-variables and uncertainty etc. Traditional production techniques in petroleum field have faced lots of limitations in modern environment. It is necessary to adopt advanced and appropriate methods to improve production techniques. As a well theory for solving complex problems, MAS is utilized by more and more researchers to deal with different difficult problems in petroleum production processes.