I am developing a Multiagent system for data collection.
I have been reading recently some papers on EC and Genectic
Algorithms. But still lack the necessary knoledge to evaluate their
true potential and aplication power to my needs. I seek some advice on
the following problem.
I have several agents that are in charge of colecting references to
documents and collecting the referenced documents. All this happen in
a assyncronous and autonumous ways. The colecting actions, on the
current stage of development, are triggered in a ciclic behaviour. I
can gather profiling data of the amount of reports and its
distribution along the day. I would like to optimize the execution
process by changing cyclic actions frequency in order to deal with
bandwidht/resources constrains.
Do you think it could be a problem solved by an EC approach. The
environment constraints (reports rate of production, resources , load)
change dynamically but there are some hourly patterns on document rate
of production. Basically can EC techniques help on the estimation of
ciclic parameteres of agent behaviours.

Thanks

Pedro Marques