Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Genetic programming: on the programming of computers by means of natural selection
Genetic programming: on the programming of computers by means of natural selection
Alternative essences of intelligence
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Towards Engineering Intelligent Systems
BT Technology Journal
Is 'Empowerment' Just a Fad? Control, Decision-Making, and Information Technology
BT Technology Journal
Modelling Market-Based Decentralised Management Systems
BT Technology Journal
IEEE Internet Computing
An Investigation of Niche and Species Formation in Genetic Function Optimization
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A Unified Paradigm for Parallel Genetic Algorithms
Selected Papers from AISB Workshop on Evolutionary Computing
Memory exploitation in learning classifier systems
Evolutionary Computation
New methods for competitive coevolution
Evolutionary Computation
Modelling Market-Based Decentralised Management Systems
BT Technology Journal
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The enterprise of the future needs to be flexible, adaptive, and to respond rapidly to market demands and opportunities. This, in turn, demands a flexible, adaptive infrastructure. A plausible way to achieve such an infrastructure is to base its organisation on autonomous agents, where each agent responds locally to the intra- and extra-organisational forces it experiences. Enterprise adaptation then arises as an emergent effect. The theories of Holland, and related work on complex adaptive systems, have a direct bearing on the emergence of system adaptation from the interaction of locally adaptive entities. This paper ties Holland's theory of artificial and natural adaptive systems to autonomous agent systems. To illustrate the use of these theories in this context, the paper presents a system of evolving autonomous agents, interacting in a simulated producer/consumer economic world. The paper presents preliminary results with the producer/consumer, evolving agents system, and discusses the implications of these results for evolving, adaptive enterprise infrastructure systems.