A Minimal Model of Communication for a Multi-agent Classifier System

  • Authors:
  • Gilles Énée;Cathy Escazut

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IWLCS '01 Revised Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Advances in Learning Classifier Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Classifier systems are rule-based systems dedicated to the learning of more or less complex tasks. They evolve toward a solution without any external help.When the problem is very intricate it is useful to have different systems, each of them being in charge with an easier part of the problem. The set of all the entities responsible for the resolution of each sub-task, forms a multi-agent system. Agents have to learn how to exchange information in order to solve the main problem. In this paper, we define the minimal requirements needed by a multi-agent classifier system to evolve communication. We thus design a minimal model involving two classifier systems which goal is to communicate with each other. A measure of entropy that evaluates the emergence of a common referent between agents has been finalised. Promising results let think that this work is only the beginning of our ongoing research activity.