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Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A model of emotions for situated agents
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
QoS-based dissemination of content in Grids
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So-Grid: A self-organizing Grid featuring bio-inspired algorithms
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A decentralized ant-inspired approach for resource management and discovery in grids
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Reorganization and discovery of grid information with epidemic tuning
Future Generation Computer Systems
A Scalable and Adaptive Distributed Service Discovery Mechanism in SOC Environments
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Construction of a Peer-to-Peer Information System in Grids
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
A swarm algorithm for a self-structured P2P information system
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Bio-inspired grid information system with epidemic tuning
GPC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Advances in grid and pervasive computing
Dynamic decentralized any-time hierarchical clustering
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Representing dispositions and emotions in simulated combat
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The virtual pheromone communication primitive
DCOSS'06 Proceedings of the Second IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
An agent based semi-informed protocol for resource discovery in grids
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Sift and sort: climbing the semantic pyramid
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
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A central issue in distributed systems engineering is enabling agents with only a local view of their environment to take actions that advance global system objectives. One example of this tension is that individual agents may take actions that consume system resources, even when they are not advancing the overall system objectives. Thus, paradoxically, system performance can sometimes improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their individual behavior in the light of the system's state, preferably in a way that does not require centralized control. We illustrate the problem of hyperactive agents in three application domains. We describe a simple, decentralized scheme, inspired by insect pheromones, that enables individual agents to adjust their level of activity as the system operates, and extend this mechanism to provide a general approach for dealing with approaching deadlines. Then, we demonstrate the effectiveness of these mechanisms in the example domains.