| Title |
Cognitive Stigmergy: A Framework Based on Agents and Artifacts |
| Authors |
Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Luca Gardelli, Enrico Oliva |
| Type |
In Workshop Proceedings |
| Booktitle |
3rd European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2005) |
| Pages |
332--343 |
| Address |
Brussels, Belgium |
| Editor |
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Gal A. Kaminka, Ann Nowè, Sascha Ossowski,
Karl Tuyls, Katja Verbeeck |
| Year |
2005 |
| Abstract |
Recently, a collective effort from multiple research areas
has been made to understand biological systems at the system level.
On the one hand, for instance, researchers working on systems biology
aim at understanding how living systems routinely perform complex
tasks. On the other hand, bioscientists involved in pharmacogenomics
strive to study how an individual's genetic inheritance affects the
body's response to drugs. Among the many things, research in the
above disciplines requires the ability to simulate particular biological
systems as cells, organs, organisms and communities. When observed
according to the perspective of system simulation, biological systems
are complex ones, and consist of a set of components interacting
with each other and with an external (dynamic) environment. In this
work, we propose an alternative way to specify and model complex
systems based on behavioral modelling. We consider a biological system
as a set of active computational components interacting in a dynamic
and often unpredictable environment. Then, we propose a conceptual
framework for engineering computational systems simulating the behaviour
of biological systems, and modelling them in terms of agents and
agent societies. |
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