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Self-organising Applications Using Lightweight Agents

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Engineering Self-Organising Systems (ESOA 2005)

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Self-organisation in nature is responsible for many complex and persistent phenomena. This suggests that self-organisation may be useful in the creation of complex applications. Multiagent systems use multiple agents to execute complex activities, and thus may be a basis for self-organising applications. In this paper we describe applications using self-organisation based upon the DIET multi-agent platform that supports lightweight agents. Multi-agent systems can be created that support decentralisation, scalability and adaptability. We show that these application properties are useful for information sharing in mobile communities via self-organising among middle agents, and via peer-to-peer interaction between agents.

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  1. PICT Research Centre, BT plc, Orion 1 PP 12, Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Paul Marrow

  2. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, University Campus – Kounoupidiana, 73100, Chania, Crete, Greece

    Manolis Koubarakis

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  4. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

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Marrow, P., Koubarakis, M. (2006). Self-organising Applications Using Lightweight Agents. In: Brueckner, S.A., Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Hales, D., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Self-Organising Systems. ESOA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3910. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11734697_9

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