Engineering Self-modeling Systems: Application to Biology

  • Authors:
  • Carole Bernon;Davy Capera;Jean-Pierre Mano

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University of Toulouse III, Toulouse cedex 9, France 31062;UPETEC, Ramonville, France 31520;Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University of Toulouse III, Toulouse cedex 9, France 31062

  • Venue:
  • Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Complexity of today's systems prevents designers from knowing everything about them and makes engineering them a difficult task for which classical engineering approaches are no longer valid. Such a challenge is especially encountered in actual complex systems simulation in which underlying computational model is very tough to design. A prospective solution is to unburden designers as much as possible by letting this computational model self-build. Adaptive multi-agent systems are the foundation of the four-layer agent model proposed here for endowing systems with the ability to self-tune, self-organize and self-assemble. This agent model has been applied to an application (MicroMega) related to computational biology which aim is to model the functional behavior of unicellular yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.