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Migration of Agents in Artificial Agent Societies: Framework and State-of-the-Art

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Artificial agent societies are made up of heterogeneous intelligent software agents, which operate locally and cooperate/coordinate with each other in order to achieve their individual goals and the collective goals of a society. Also, these member agents can move from one location/society to another in order to achieve their own (individual) goals as well as to help achieve collective goals of the society. This movement of agents in/between societies is called agent migration. Agent migration is a multi-faceted, dynamic process with various types of dynamics associated to it. In order to facilitate and perpetuate the process of agent migration and study various types of dynamics existing in it, an artificial agent society should be equipped with some module or subsystem, which can handle the task of migration and its consequences in a structured manner. In this paper, we present an agent migration subsystem for an artificial agent society with all its constituents, which will be governing the process of agent migration and handling its consequences. In addition to that, we also discuss various possible typologies of agent migration process.

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    Harjot Kaur, Karanjeet Singh Kahlon & Rajinder Singh Virk

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Kaur, H., Kahlon, K.S., Virk, R.S. (2015). Migration of Agents in Artificial Agent Societies: Framework and State-of-the-Art. In: Jain, L., Behera, H., Mandal, J., Mohapatra, D. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 3. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 33. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2202-6_4

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