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A Cybernetic Approach to the Modeling of Agent Communities

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Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace (CIA 2000)

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This paper, which is expository in nature, investigates and illustrates the idea of using cybernetic system modeling techniques to model a multi-agent community. The cybernetic concepts used are those originally developed by Stafford Beer. The paper illustrates the idea on a community of agents being developed at Goddard to support both ground-based and space-based system autonomy. It is hoped that use of this approach will help provide a deeper insight into the dynamics of agent-community behaviors. Time and additional analyses will tell.

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  1. Senior Technologist, Code 588 NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Walt Truszkowski

  2. Viable Systems Inc, 12236 Stoney Bottom Road, Germantown, MD, 20874, USA

    Jay Karlin

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. E-Center for E-Business and Department of Computer Science Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Larry Kerschberg

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Truszkowski, W., Karlin, J. (2000). A Cybernetic Approach to the Modeling of Agent Communities. In: Klusch, M., Kerschberg, L. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace. CIA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45012-2_16

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