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Stability and control of agent ecosystems

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The problem of balancing supply and demand is not a new problem for multi-agent systems (MAS). Achieving a balance between the demand for jobs of a certain kind and the supply of agents to perform these jobs is critical to system performance and stability. An insufficient number of agents forces jobs to accumulate over time, preventing the system from benefiting from the parallel nature of the networked MAS. On the other hand an excessive number of agents slow the system down with unnecessary processing and communications overhead. This problem is amplified if the agent system is running over a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), since such networks may be composed of lightweight devices that are restricted in terms of processing power, memory, available bandwidth and battery power.

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E. Sultanik et al. Implementing secure mobile agents on ad hoc wireless network. In Proc. of IAAI, pp. 129--36, 2003.

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AAMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
July 2005
1407 pages
ISBN:1595930930
DOI:10.1145/1082473
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  1. P2P
  2. agents & complex systems
  3. agents & networks
  4. computational ecosystems
  5. grid
  6. semantic web
  7. stability theory
  8. web agents
  9. web services

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  • (2010)A biochemical approach to adaptive service ecosystemsInformation Sciences: an International Journal10.1016/j.ins.2009.11.021180:10(1876-1892)Online publication date: 1-May-2010
  • (2008)Architecture and Metaphors for Eternally Adaptive Service EcosystemsIntelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications10.1007/978-3-540-85257-5_3(23-32)Online publication date: 2008
  • (2005)Agent transport simulation for dynamic peer-to-peer networksProceedings of the 6th international conference on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation10.1007/11734680_12(162-173)Online publication date: 25-Jul-2005

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