Decentralised structural adaptation in agent organisations
OA Location
Author(s)
Kota, Ramachandra
Gibbins, Nicholas
Jennings, Nick
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Autonomic computing is being advocated as a tool for maintaining and managing large and complex computing systems. Self-organising multi-agent systems provide a suitable paradigm for developing such autonomic systems. Towards this goal, we demonstrate a robust, decentralised approach for structural adaptation in explicitly modelled problem solving agent organisations. Our method is based on self-organisation principles and enables the agents to modify the organisational structure to achieve a better allocation of tasks across the organisation in a simulated task-solving environment. The agents forge and dissolve relations with other agents using their history of interactions as guidance. We empirically show that the efficiency of organisations using our approach is close to that of organisations having an omniscient central allocator and considerably better than static organisations or those changing the structure randomly.
Date Issued
2008
Citation
2008, 5368/2, pp.54-71
Publisher
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Start Page
54
End Page
71
Volume
5368/2
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/266823/
Source
AAMAS Workshop on Organised Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
08 Information And Computing Sciences
Notes
Event Dates: May
Publication Status
Unpublished