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Natural systems often exhibit, at a macro level, a tendency to order that emerges from simple and local interactions between the system components. This idea that the whole can denote a consistent behavior that is more than the sum of individual components has inspired the design and development of many artificial systems. Recently, with the pervasiveness of IT in the automation domain the application...
This paper considers an adaptive data dissemination scenario that applies an autonomic trust protocol to a network of agents. The protocol uses social network structures to incentivize cooperation. Validation is conducted through simulation of content sharing between peers which uses similarity of interest between peers to define payoff. Positive correlation is observed between the number of social...
Numerous applications can be formulated as a resource allocation problem, which require a distributed solving method especially when dynamic environments are considered. According to such methods, a solution does not only consist in an optimal allocation, but needs a sequence of transactions leading from a given initial allocation to an optimal one. Up to now, studies have been based on ideal contexts...
In this paper we present a self-organizing emergent multi-agent system designed for the decentralized real time control of water distribution networks. The agents, which are associated with every pump, tank, and water tower of such a distribution network, interact by means of a decentralized coordination mechanism based on digital info chemicals. In particular, they utilize a biologically-inspired...
When introducing self-organization into a system, its developer aims to reduce the system's complexity, during development as well as during operation. More often than not, the self-organization mechanism is ingenious, highly tweaked for the system under construction and not reproducible or reusable by other developers or in other projects. This paper introduces a software engineering guideline for...
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