"Go to the Ant": Engineering Principles from Natural Multi-Agent Systems

"Go to the Ant": Engineering Principles from Natural Multi-Agent Systems (1997)

by Van Dyke Parunak

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TITLE	"Go to the Ant": Engineering Principles from Natural Multi-Agent Systems	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Van Dyke Parunak	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Industrial Technology Institute	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	PO Box 1485; Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	Agent architectures need to organize themselves and adapt dynamically to changing circumstances without top-down control from a system operator. Some researchers provide this capability with complex agents that emulate human intelligence and reason explicitly about their coordination, reintroducing many of the problems of complex system design and implementation that motivated increasing software localization in the first place. Naturally occurring systems of simple agents (such as populations of insects or other animals) suggest that this retreat is not necessary. This paper summarizes several studies of such systems, and derives from them a set of general principles that artificial multiagent systems can use to support overall system behavior significantly more complex than the behavior of the individuals agents. 1. Introduction Table 1 shows that the history of software is one of increasing localization and encapsulation. Originally, the basic unit of software was the complete pro...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1997	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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