Gossip and Ostracism in Modelling Automorphosis of Multi-agent Systems
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Automorphosis viewed in terms of IT systems requires that these systems have a range of features related to autonomy, dispersion of their components, and communication between their elements. Examples of IT systems in which the issue of automorphosis is an important modelling aspect include software agent societies where individual agent units create structures that specialise in performance of assigned tasks in a dynamic manner, depending on changing conditions. The use of automorphosis mechanisms in such groups of agents enables control of their behaviour and monitoring of their actions. The first chapter will address the issues of automorphosis of software agent societies. The second chapter will present an analysis of the theory of using gossip and ostracism in IT systems. The third chapter presents a proposal of the use of gossip and ostracism. It also includes results of an experiment. The aim of this paper is to analyse the possibilities of the concepts of gossip and ostracism as a control element of agent societies. To achieve that the extension of JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) was developed.
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