TY - GEN
T1 - An evolutionary agent system for mathematical programming
AU - Ullah, Abu S.S.M.Barkat
AU - Sarker, Ruhul
AU - Cornforth, David
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - During the last decade, both evolutionary computation and multiagent systems have been used for solving decision and optimization problems. This paper proposes a new evolutionary agent system by incorporating evolutionary process into agent concepts for solving mathematical programming models. Each of the agents represents a candidate solution of the problem, and able to sense and act on the society. The fitness of the agent improves through co-evolutionary adaptation of society with the individual learning of the agents. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested on five new benchmark problems along with existing 13 well-known problems, and the experimental results show convincing performance.
AB - During the last decade, both evolutionary computation and multiagent systems have been used for solving decision and optimization problems. This paper proposes a new evolutionary agent system by incorporating evolutionary process into agent concepts for solving mathematical programming models. Each of the agents represents a candidate solution of the problem, and able to sense and act on the society. The fitness of the agent improves through co-evolutionary adaptation of society with the individual learning of the agents. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested on five new benchmark problems along with existing 13 well-known problems, and the experimental results show convincing performance.
KW - evolutionary computation
KW - Multi-Agent System
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38049044902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-74581-5_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-74581-5_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38049044902
SN - 9783540745808
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 187
EP - 196
BT - Advances in Computation and Intelligence - Second International Symposium, ISICA 2007, Proceedings
A2 - Kang, Lishan
A2 - Liu, Yong
A2 - Zeng, Sanyou
PB - Springer
CY - Netherlands
T2 - 2nd International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2007
Y2 - 21 September 2007 through 23 September 2007
ER -