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Self-organizing mechanism in multi-agent systems can improve the system performance by adapting the structure among agents. However, in most previous work, each agent can only adapt the relations by itself. This may induce a problem that the overloaded agents have to consume a fraction of precious load on adaptation. Here, we propose a novel self-organizing mechanism which enables some underloaded agents to act as the intermediary to perform the relation adaptation for the overloaded agents. Through experiments, our self-organizing mechanism has validated the effectiveness.
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Zhang, M., Zhou, Y., Jiang, Y. (2014). Intermediary-Based Self-organizing Mechanism in Multi-agent Systems. In: Dam, H.K., Pitt, J., Xu, Y., Governatori, G., Ito, T. (eds) PRIMA 2014: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8861. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13191-7_3
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