Paper Info
Title
Core specification and experiments in DIET: a decentralised ecosystem-inspired mobile agent system
Abstract
Mobile Agent systems have attracted considerable attention as means of exploring and manipulating distributed information sources. However, many existing multi-agent platforms present limitations in terms of adaptability and scalability, indicating difficulties when trying to replicate these results on a large scale. We describe the core of a novel mobile agent toolkit known as DIET, (Decentralised Information Ecosystem Technologies), which addresses some of these limitations and provides a foundation for an open, robust, adaptive and scalable agent ecosystem. We introduce DIET core features and describe how they support basic mobile agent capabilities such as migration and real-time interaction. We then illustrate how an ecosystem-inspired design approach differs from conventional design approaches. Finally, we experiment with a simple information retrieval scenario, demonstrating the emergence of agent communities through the evolution of environmental preferences. In this way we hope to clarify how applications built on this foundation could be used to tackle problems in adaptable and open real-world scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1145/544862.544890
AAMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
core specification,information source,novel mobile agent toolkit,agent community,conventional design approach,simple information retrieval scenario,ecosystem-inspired design approach,decentralised ecosystem-inspired mobile agent,diet core feature,scalable agent ecosystem,basic mobile agent capability,open real-world scenario,information retrieval,evolution,multi agent system,real time,group,emergence,agent,ecosystem,mobile agent,community
Adaptability,Computer science,Mobile agent,Multi-agent system,Replicate,Distributed computing,Scalability,Mobile agent systems
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-480-0
18
1.67
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cefn Hoile1333.94
Fang Wang2413.41
Erwin Bonsma3444.87
Paul Marrow4889.26