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Ecology Based Decentralized Agent Management System
Proceedings 3rd NASA/IEEE Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS-III)
01 Oct 2004
Abstract
The problem of maintaining a desired number of mobile agents on a network is not trivial, especially if we want a completely decentralized solution. Decentralized control makes a system more r e bust and less susceptible to partial failures. The problem is exacerbated on wireless ad hoc networks where host mobility can result in significant changes in the network size and topology. In this paper we propose an ecology-inspired approach to the management of the number of agents. The approach associates agents with living organisms and tasks with food. Agents procreate or die based on the abundance of uncompleted tasks (food). We performed a series of experiments investigating p r o p erties of such systems and analyzed their stability under various conditions. We concluded that the ecology based metaphor can be successfully applied to the management of agent populations on wireless ad hoc networks .
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- Title
- Ecology Based Decentralized Agent Management System
- Creators
- MAXIM Peysakhov - Drexel UniversityV.A Cicirello - Drexel UniversityWilliam Clement Regli - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings 3rd NASA/IEEE Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS-III)
- Publisher
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Computing and Informatics
- Identifiers
- 991022031772504721