Centralized reward system gives rise to fast and efficient work sharing for intelligent Internet agents lacking direct communication

WWW has a scale-free structure where novel information is often difficult to locate. Moreover, Intelligent agents easily get trapped in this structure. Here a novel method is put forth, which turns these traps into information repositories, supplies: We populated an Internet environment with intelli...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2003-08
Main Authors: Palotai, Zsolt, Mandusitz, Sandor, Lorincz, Andras
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communications systems
Communities
Division
Intelligent agents
Internet
News
Repositories
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Summary:WWW has a scale-free structure where novel information is often difficult to locate. Moreover, Intelligent agents easily get trapped in this structure. Here a novel method is put forth, which turns these traps into information repositories, supplies: We populated an Internet environment with intelligent news foragers. Foraging has its associated cost whereas foragers are rewarded if they detect not yet discovered novel information. The intelligent news foragers crawl by using the estimated long-term cumulated reward, and also have a finite sized memory: the list of most promising supplies. Foragers form an artificial life community: the most successful ones are allowed to multiply, while unsuccessful ones die out. The specific property of this community is that there is no direct communication amongst foragers but the centralized rewarding system. Still, fast division of work is achieved.
ISSN:2331-8422