The benefits of environment adaptive organisations for agent coordination and network routing problems

Author

Willmott, Steven ; Faltings, Boi

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Intelligence Artificielle, Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

340

Abstract

Resource allocation tasks in communication networks involve challenging problems in the distribution of information and control. The paper presents an adaptive organisational structure to support coordination between agents performing quality of service routing tasks. Agents are able to change organisational relationships over time to match the network state (the task environment). Experimental results show that the adaptive organisation significantly improves agent coordination and routing performance when compared with an equivalent static organisational structure

Keywords

adaptive systems; multi-agent systems; quality of service; resource allocation; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network routing; adaptive organisational structure; agent coordination; communication networks; environment adaptive organisations; network routing problems; network state; organisational relationships; quality of service routing tasks; resource allocation tasks; static organisational structure; task environment; Communication networks; Communication system control; Intelligent networks; Organizational aspects; Problem-solving; Quality of service; Resource management; Routing; Spine; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MultiAgent Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0625-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858471

Filename

858471