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Emergence is a powerful mechanism for coordination of hundreds of uniform agents with limited reasoning capacity. These structures are in contrast to open systems of heterogeneous agents in which a population’s conception of global goals and the plan of how to achieve said goals may differ between agents. To reconcile these conflicts, agents require a means of contextualising past and proposed system change in terms of their local model of utility. Metric spaces allow designers to map system change to a set of functions describing different aspects of adaptation (temporal delay, physical cost etc.), giving agents the means to self-organise through compromise and introspection with respect to a set of conventional rules, as opposed to linear adherence to local computations with respect to physical rules or environmental constraints. In this paper we present a new multi-agent programming environment, PreSage-\(\mathcal{MS}\), a rapid prototyping and animation tool designed to facilitate experiments in organised adaptation of metric spaces of ‘sophisticated’ agent teams.
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Carr, H., Artikis, A., Pitt, J. (2012). Software Support for Organised Adaptation. In: Collier, R., Dix, J., Novák, P. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28939-2_6
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