TY - GEN
T1 - Homeotaxis
T2 - 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008
AU - Prokopenko, Mikhail
AU - Zeman, Astrid
AU - Li, Rongxin
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We present a novel approach to self-organisation of coordinated behaviour among multiple resource-sharing agents. We consider a hierarchical multi-agent system comprising multiple energy-dependent agents split into local neighbourhoods, each with a dedicated controller, and a centralised coordinator dealing only with the controllers. The coordinated behaviour is required in order to achieve a balance between the overall resource consumption by the multi-agent collective and the stress on the community. Minimising the resource consumption increases the stress, while reducing the stress may lead to unrestricted and highly unpredictable demand, harming the individual agents in the long-run. We identify underlying forces in the system's dynamics, suggest a number of quantitative measures used to contrast different strategies, and introduce a novel strategy based on persistent sensorimotor time-loops: homeotaxis. Homeotaxis subsumes the homeokinetic principle, extending it both in terms of scope (multi-agent self-organisation) and the state-space, and allows to select the best adaptive strategy for the considered system.
AB - We present a novel approach to self-organisation of coordinated behaviour among multiple resource-sharing agents. We consider a hierarchical multi-agent system comprising multiple energy-dependent agents split into local neighbourhoods, each with a dedicated controller, and a centralised coordinator dealing only with the controllers. The coordinated behaviour is required in order to achieve a balance between the overall resource consumption by the multi-agent collective and the stress on the community. Minimising the resource consumption increases the stress, while reducing the stress may lead to unrestricted and highly unpredictable demand, harming the individual agents in the long-run. We identify underlying forces in the system's dynamics, suggest a number of quantitative measures used to contrast different strategies, and introduce a novel strategy based on persistent sensorimotor time-loops: homeotaxis. Homeotaxis subsumes the homeokinetic principle, extending it both in terms of scope (multi-agent self-organisation) and the state-space, and allows to select the best adaptive strategy for the considered system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=54249163409&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_40
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:54249163409
SN - 3540691332
SN - 9783540691334
VL - 5040 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 403
EP - 414
BT - From Animals to Animats 10 - 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008, Proceedings
PB - Springer, Springer Nature
CY - Berlin; New York
Y2 - 7 July 2008 through 12 July 2008
ER -