Ant-like agents for load balancing in telecommunications networks
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Estimating Joint Probabilities from Marginal Ones
DaWaK 2000 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
Ant Colony Optimization
Real-time agent characterization and prediction
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Concurrent modeling of alternative worlds with polyagents
MABS'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation VII
A survey of environments and mechanisms for human-human stigmergy
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Generation and analysis of multiple futures with swarming agents
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Pheromones, probabilities, and multiple futures
MABS'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation
Stigmergic modeling for web service composition and adaptation
PRICAI'12 Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim international conference on Trends in Artificial Intelligence
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Stigmergic agent-based systems often use digital pheromones, scalar variables indexed to the agents' environment, as a means of coordination among agents. These fields are potentially valuable in another way, as a source of information to programs external to the MAS. In many cases, and in particular in the polyagent modeling construct, pheromones can be interpreted as probability fields, allowing inferences about the range of behaviors accessible to the system from a single execution. We motivate this interpretation of digital pheromone fields, develop the mathematics that supports their analysis, and illustrate their use in a battlefield simulation.