NDLI: Decentralized approaches for self-adaptation in agent organizations

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Kota, Ramachandra Gibbins, Nicholas Jennings, Nicholas R.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Self-organizing multi-agent systems provide a suitable paradigm for developing autonomic computing systems that manage themselves. Towards this goal, we demonstrate a robust, decentralized approach for structural adaptation in explicitly modeled problem solving agent organizations. Based on self-organization 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 organizations using our method is close (70–90%) to that of an idealized centralized allocation method and is considerably better (10–60%) than the current state-of-the-art decentralized approaches.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	28
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15564665
e-ISSN	15564703
DOI	10.1145/2168260.2168261
Volume Number	7
Issue Number	1
Journal	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-05-04
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Autonomic computing Adaptation Agent organization Organization structure Self-organization
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Control and Systems Engineering Software

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