Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems

Abstract

Many agent-based systems rely for their effectiveness on the intelligence of individual agents, and interaction among agents is required simply to coordinate these individually complex decisions. Specification and design methods for such systems focus on the internal architecture of individual agents. An alternative approach, "Synthetic Ecosystems," uses relatively simple agents and draws heavily on the dynamics of the interaction among these agents as well as their internal processing to solve domain problems. The specification and design of such systems must include not only the individual agents, but also the structure and dynamics of their interaction. This paper briefly defines and motivates the Synthetic Ecosystems approach and outlines some techniques that have proven useful in specifying and designing them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA361465

Entities

People

  • John Sauter
  • Steve Clark
  • Van Parunak

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communities
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Ecosystems
  • Environment
  • Manufacturing
  • Market Economy
  • Materials
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Phase
  • Simulations
  • Systems Analysis
  • Systems Biology
  • Systems Engineering

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