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A composite self-organisation mechanism in an agent network
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Ye, D and Zhang, M and Bai, Q, A composite self-organisation mechanism in an agent network, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2011). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 6997, 13-14 October 2011, Sydney, Australia, pp. 249-256. ISBN 978-3-642-24433-9 (2011) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24434-6_19
Abstract
Self-organisation provides a suitable paradigm for developing autonomic web-based applications, e.g., e-commerce. Towards this end, in this paper, a composite self-organisation mechanism in an agent network is proposed. Based on self-organisation principles, this mechanism enables agents to dynamically adapt relations with other agents, i.e., change the underlying network structure, to achieve efficient task allocation. The proposed mechanism integrates a trust model to assist agents in reasoning with whom to adapt relations and employs a multi-agent Q-learning algorithm for agents to learn how to adapt relations. Moreover, in this mechanism, it is considered that the agents are connected by weighted relations, instead of crisp relations.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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| Keywords: | trust model, task allocation, candidate selection, agent network, intermediate agent |
| Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
| Research Group: | Artificial intelligence |
| Research Field: | Intelligent robotics |
| Objective Division: | Information and Communication Services |
| Objective Group: | Information systems, technologies and services |
| Objective Field: | Application software packages |
| UTAS Author: | Bai, Q (Dr Quan Bai) |
| ID Code: | 140693 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
| Deposited On: | 2020-09-01 |
| Last Modified: | 2020-11-09 |
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