Model and Experiments of Local Decision Based on Cooperative Self-Organization
Gauthier Picard, Pierre Glize, Université Paul Sabatier · 2005
Abstract. This paper presents an approach based on cooperative self-organization for artificial systems, in order to tackle openness and dy-namics. We propose to use cooperation as a local criterion enabling parts of the system the cooperative agents to reorganize as to modify their interactions and then the global function. We underline the difficulty of defining cooperation and the means to reestablish a cooperative state within a non cooperative system. Two cooperative agents ' behaviors are expounded, at the boundary between altruism and selfishness. This ap-proach is also illustrated by modeling, from a local viewpoint, a classical constraint satisfaction problem: the N queens problem.