An Analytic Approach to Pheromone-Based Coordination in Synthetic Ecosystems
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The systematic application of the synthetic ecosystems approach to the design of multi-agent systems is supported by the use of a generic pheromone infrastructure as extension of the runtime environment of the software agents. Using this infrastructure, insect-like coordination mechanisms may be applied in software systems. This article proposes an analytic model for such a generic pheromone infrastructure. Indirect pheromone-based multi-agent coordination scenarios are analyzed and tuned on the basis of the analytic model according to the requirements of the respective application. This article demonstrates in a relevant scenario, how the model is used to design a coordination mechanism. This is the rst step towards an analytical understanding of emergent e ects in synthetic ecosystems.
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The synthetic ecosystems approach attempts to adopt basic principles of natural ecosystems in the design of multiagent systems. Natural agent systems like insect colonies are fascinating in that they are robust, exible, and adaptive. Made up of millions of very simple entities, these systems express a highly complex and coordinated global behavior. There are several branches in di erent science...
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