Regarding EC and information retrieval, the following references may be
of interest.

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/moukas98amalthaea.html

http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/fil/Papers/jaamas.pdf
(and further related papers at
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/fil/papers.asp)

http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~alex/pub_papers.dir/t-gecco2001t.ps

I'm sure others on the list would have additional useful suggestions for
references, or ideas which would be relevant to your problem.

Cefn
http://cefn.com
DIET Agents Project Team
http://diet-agents.sourceforge.net
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecomas

-----Original Message-----
From: away_onthemove [mailto:pmarques@...]
Sent: 25 January 2005 16:08
To: ecomas@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ecomas] Mas and EC request for advice




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






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