Population of Cooperative Autonomous Agents:Preliminary Consideration

Abstract A management strategy for a population of cooperative autonomous agents has been developed. This strategy enables activity behaviour management of a large and dynamically changing population. To make large populations of agents manageable it is necessary to make them autonomous. One of the key criteria for such autonomy is that agent behaviour must be adaptable to a dynamic environment. If the goal is to establish a large scale population of agents away from immediate human contact such that the population is autonomous, then it needs to be adaptable and self-sustaining. Management of an autonomous population is seen as one of the key factors for realisation of this goal. System requirements have been identified and application areas suggested.