Context-Aware Emergent Behaviour in a MAS for Information Exchange

Andrei Olaru (1) , Cristian Gratie (1) , Adina Magda Florea (1)

1 Equipe AI-MAS

The plethora of interconnected devices that surrounds modern people has yet to work together as a whole. An intelligent environment must sense and react to the actions of people, but to that end a large quantity of information must be exchanged throughout the system. Under realistic conditions, it is impossible to control and coordinate the exchange of information in a centralized way. Solving this problem involves key concepts like self-organization, emergent behaviour and context-awareness. Continuing previous work on self-organizing cognitive multi-agent systems for the exchange and management of information, this paper introduces two aspects of context-awareness - pressure and interest - that make the system's emergent behaviour more context-sensitive and, therefore, more adaptive to a changing environment.

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Andrei Olaru, Cristian Gratie, Adina Magda Florea. Context-Aware Emergent Behaviour in a MAS for Information Exchange. Scalable Computing : Practice and Experience, 2010, 11 (1), pp.33--42. ⟨hal-00661509⟩