Alternative Agent Control Strategies
Knowledge-Sharing
- Agents share knowledge about capabilities and requests.
- Agent brokers dynamically match requests to capabilities.
- System dynamically adjusts as capabilities are added to and removed from the environment.
Team Coordination
- Agents share knowledge about goals, plans, tasks & subtasks, commitments and performance.
- Teams cooperative through partially synchronized actions to accomplish individual subtasks and common goals.
- Market-Driven Economy
- Self-interested agents pursue personal profit.
- Behavior is driven by the cost of resources.
- Agents are controlled by specifying market rules, rewards and penalties.
- Evolutionary Systems
- Agents populations evolve over time through “reproduction”, mutation and natural selection.
- Agents are controlled by specifying selection criteria and reproduction process.
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