Autonomous Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multi-Agent Systems Improv
High communication efforts and poor problem solving results due to restricted overview are two central issues in collaborative problem solving. This work addresses these issues by introducing the processes of agent melting and agent splitting that enable
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Markus Hannebauer
Autonomous Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multi-Agent Systems Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Collaborative Problem Solving
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Author Markus Hannebauer think-cell Software GmbH Invalidenstraße 34, 10115 Berlin, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2.8, H.4.1, K.4.3, I.2, C.2.4, D.2.11 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-44312-6 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Steingräber Satztechnik GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10873879 06/3142 543210
Foreword
This book by Markus Hannebauer was written in the context of a postgraduate funding program at the Technical University of Berlin. It is remarkable, in particular, for the scientific contribution it makes to the area of distributed problem-solving, but also because of the overall situation in which the work was done. One of the referees describes Markus’ doctoral thesis, on which this book is based, as an extraordinarily successful venture into a new research area, and not surprisingly it has already won a number of prizes and been nominated for others. The work centers on a process enabling individual problem-solving agents to constantly and autonomously reconfigure and adapt themselves to the problem in hand by agent melting and splitting. The main things optimized here are the communication behaviour between the agents and the overall problem-solving quality. A characteristic feature of the book, and of Markus’ workstyle, is both the excellent theoretical grounding and, almost as a matter of course, the proof of its practi
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