Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
MultiAgent Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0625-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858471
