Bio-inspired Self-Adaptive Agents in Distributed Systems

General information

Authors:
Ichiro SATOH

DOI:
10.14201/ADCAIJ2012124956

Volume:
Regular Issue 1 (2), 2012

Keywords:

Adaptive Agents; Distributed Systems

This paper proposes a bio-inspired middleware for selfadaptive software agents on distributed systems. It is unique to other existing approaches for software adaptation because it introduces the notions of differentiation, dedifferentiation, and cellular division in cellular slime molds, e.g., dictyostelium discoideum, into real distributed systems. When an agent delegates a function to another agent coordinating with it, if the former has the function, this function becomes lessdeveloped and the latter’s function becomes welldeveloped.

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