Autonomy-Oriented Computation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems · 2001
Examples of autonomous multi-entity systems are plentiful, both in the natural and artificial worlds. Many systems have been studied in depth and some models of these have been built in computational systems for problem solving. Central to these computational systems is the notion of autonomy. This article proposes autonomy oriented computation (AOC) as a complementary paradigm for solving hard computational problems and for characterizing the behaviors of a complex system.