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Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3 (AAMAS'04)
pp. 1038-1045
Multi-Agent Organisms for Persistent Computing
Kenneth N. Lodding, NASA Langley Research Center
Paul Brewster, NASA Langley Research Center
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The defining characteristic of a multicellular organism
is unity of purpose. In biology, the purpose is survival of
the organism. The purpose of our multi-agent system is to
provide a persistent computing environment in harsh
conditions where repairs are difficult, or impossible. The
multi-agent organism is a single entity built from logically
dependent cells, where each cell is a discrete,
independent hardware-processing unit. Similar to
biology, each cell contains a full description of the system
encoded as genes in a software genome. Cells choose
which gene to express depending on internal state, the
genome, and the state of neighboring cells. Gene
expression involves executing a program fragment, which,
when combined with all other genes in the genome,
defines the full system. The multi-agent architecture
provides a computing environment that adapts to
unexpected changes in the hardware by reconfiguring to
the new hardware without losing functionality, although
performance may be affected.
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Citation:
Kenneth N. Lodding, Paul Brewster,
"Multi-Agent Organisms for Persistent Computing,"
aamas,
pp. 1038-1045,
Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3 (AAMAS'04),
2004
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