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Processing of Information Microgranules within an Individual’s Society

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Consider a web society comprised by a huge number of agents communicating with one another. Each agent enjoys a wide facility in receiving and sending data and a very small capacity for processing them. Hence data constitute a heap of microgranules of information. Each individual processes data by him- or herself with the sole goal of increasing personal utility. In this sense s/he adapts his/her parameters in a monotone way so as to fit granules. The sole social interaction with others all around aims at maintaining a healthy homeostasis. This goal is achieved through an aging mechanism that is set at the basis of a human-centric policy for producing a dynamic formation of clusters of healthy agents within a population. As a result, agents are specialized in a user-dependent task common to all individuals of a same cluster, and possibly belonging to more than one cluster. We may interpret the process as a dynamic assignment of agent membership degrees to the various clusters: each cluster is ranked with an overall quality index; each agent partitions an overall membership on the single clusters.

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Apolloni, B., Bassis, S., Zippo, A.G. (2009). Processing of Information Microgranules within an Individual’s Society . In: Bargiela, A., Pedrycz, W. (eds) Human-Centric Information Processing Through Granular Modelling. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92916-1_10

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