We have written a paper which is our contribution to a book about the results of the ICIS project. In this paper we show how a hierarchical agent organization can adapt its organization according to the balance in workload among the agents. The result is that these adaptive hierarchies perform better while less information exchange between agents is needed.
This example is the result of a simulation in the RoboCupRescue simulation environment and it shows an evolving hierarchical organization over time. Initially, at t=0, the organization consists of 2 layers:
As the simulation continues, the organizational structure starts to shape itself to the workload distribution over the agents. At t=100 the organization is structured as follows:
More and more agents finish their initial task and are then assigned to work for other agents. This results in the following organization structure at t=200
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Dear Mattijs,
As i wrote before, i’m interested in your work because it is nearly related to mine.
If your paper is accepted or published, would you please kindly send me your paper? I think that it would help me very much.
In addition, i couldn’t see the results, because the flicker is not available for us in Iran. How i can see them?
Best,
Afsaneh