NDLI: An experimental study of the emergent behaviors of self-organized agent communities

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shufeng Wang Hong Zhu
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Nat. Lab. for Parallel & Distributed Process., Changsha (Shufeng Wang)
Abstract	Emergent behavior is an essential feature in multi-agent systems and plays a significant role in the applications of agent technology. Because of the huge gap between individual agents' behaviors and those of the whole system, specifying and reasoning about emergent behaviors are notoriously difficult. Simulation has been the essential method to study emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems. In this paper, we report an experimental study of the emergent behaviors of self-organized agent communities, in which emergent behaviors play a crucial role. The experiments confirmed the results of a theoretical analysis of agent communities using a formal theory called scenario calculus. It further provided insight into the dynamic features of the system that were very difficult to obtain by using formal logic, such as the speed of convergence to the emergent states and the relationships between the convergence time and various parameters of self-organized agent communities systems.
Starting Page	3239
Ending Page	3246
File Size	708592
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424413393
DOI	10.1109/CEC.2007.4424887
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-09-25
Publisher Place	Singapore
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Evolutionary computation Convergence Agent communities Emergent behavior Simulation Reachability Stability
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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