Behaviosites: A novel paradigm for affecting distributed behavior

Amit Shabtay*, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

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Abstract

We present the Behaviosite paradigm, a new approach to affecting the behavior of distributed agents in a multiagent system, which is inspired by biological parasites with behavior manipulation properties. Behaviosites are special kinds of agents that "infect" a system composed of agents operating in that environment. The behaviosites facilitate behavioral changes in agents to achieve altered, potentially improved, performance of the overall system. Behaviosites need to be designed so that they are intimately familiar with the internal workings of the environment and of the agents operating within it, and behaviosites apply this knowledge for their manipulation, using various infection and manipulation strategies. To demonstrate and test this paradigm, we implemented a version of the El Farol problem, using behaviosites.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Pages679-681
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
EventFifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS - Hakodate, Japan
Duration: 8 May 200612 May 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents
Volume2006

Conference

ConferenceFifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityHakodate
Period8/05/0612/05/06

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