Decentralized approaches for self-adaptation in agent organizations
OA Location
Author(s)
Kota, R
Gibbins, N
Jennings, N
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Self-organising multi-agent systems provide a suitable paradigm for developing autonomic computing systems that manage themselves. Towards this goal, we demonstrate a robust, decentralised approach for structural adaptation in explicitly modelled problem solving agent organisations. Based on self-organisation principles, our method enables the autonomous agents to modify their structural relations to achieve a better allocation of tasks in a simulated task-solving environment. Specifically, the agents reason about when and how to adapt using only their history of interactions as guidance. We empirically show that, in a wide range of closed, open, static and dynamic scenarios, the performance of organisations using our method is close (70-90%) to that of an idealised centralised allocation method and is considerably better (10-60%) than the current state of the art decentralised approaches.
Date Issued
2012-04-01
Date Acceptance
2012-04-01
Citation
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2012, 7 (1)
ISSN
1556-4703
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Journal / Book Title
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
Volume
7
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© ACM 2012 This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2168260.2168261.
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271602/
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Information Systems
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Computer Science
Algorithms
Experimentation
Performance
Autonomic computing
Self-organization
Adaptation
Organization structure
Agent organization
Multi
Model
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Cognitive Science
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
1