Title: Evolution of ubiquitous autonomous agents

Authors: Jason C. Hung, Han-Bin Chang, Hsuan-Pu Chang, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Kuo-Yen Lo

Addresses: Department of Information Management, Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Yuanpei University, Taiwan. ' Department of Digital Game Design, Kao Fong College, Pintung, Taiwan. ' Department of Information Management, Ling Tung University, Taiwan. ' Department of Information Management, Ling Tung University, Taiwan

Abstract: Ubiquitous researches had been done recently. With the development of cellular phones and internet, these individualised programs exist in the digital world where a new ecosystem can be formed. Competition and collaboration thus exists among different groups of autonomous entities. We propose a model like food web exists in natural world and serves as a balancing algorithm among different types of species. We define the food web model and propose algorithms for formation and communication. The proposed model can be used to consider the development of intelligent strategies and the underlying communication topology such that ubiquitous intelligences can be evolved on the digital food web.

Keywords: evolutionary computing; autonomous agents; food web; food chain; embedded agents; intelligent networks; world modelling; semantics; ubiquitous intelligence; multi-agent systems; MAS; agent-based systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2009.028661

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009 Vol.4 No.6, pp.334 - 343

Published online: 22 Sep 2009 *

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