The computational beauty of nature
The computational beauty of nature
Fundamentals of fault-tolerant distributed computing in asynchronous environments
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Network Awareness for Mobile Agents on Ad Hoc Networks
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Designing Dependable Agent Systems for Mobile Wireless Networks
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Probabilistically survivable MASs
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Ecology based decentralized agent management system
FAABS'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems
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The problem of maintaining a desired number of mobile agents on a network is not trivial, especially if what is required is a completely decentralized solution. Decentralized control makes a system more robust and less susceptible to partial failures. The problem of agent population management is exacerbated on wireless ad hoc networks where host mobility can result in significant changes in the network size and topology. System stability is also of critical importance. This paper analyzes the stability of a previously proposed ecology-inspired approach to agent population management, and proposes improvements. The stability of the new ecology based strategy is proved theoretically, and the conclusions are verified with a set of experiments.