Evolutionary multi-agent systems. (25th March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Byrski, Aleksander; Dreżewski, Rafał; Siwik, Leszek; Kisiel-Dorohinicki, Marek
• Is Part Of: Knowledge engineering review. Volume 30:Number 2(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 171
• Page End: 186
• Publication Date: 2015-03-25
• Subjects: Expert systems (Computer science) -- Periodicals; 006.33
• DOI: 10.1017/S0269888914000289
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0269-8889

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to give a survey on the development and applications of evolutionary multi-agent systems (EMAS). The paper starts with a general introduction describing the background, structure and behaviour of EMAS. EMAS application to solving global optimisation problems is presented in the next section along with its modification targeted at lowering the computation costs by early removing certain agents based on immunological inspirations. Subsequent sections deal with the elitist variant of EMAS aimed at solving multi-criteria optimisation problems, and the co-evolutionary one aimed at solving multi-modal optimisation problems. Each variation of EMAS is illustrated with selected experimental results.