A kind of mechanism based agent model design

Abstract

In agent-based complex adaptive system modeling and simulation, Agent is often situated in dynamic environment, so in order to reflect the fundamental characteristic of Agent - autonomy, it is necessary to describe the learning ability and adaptability that how Agent makes adaptive change autonomously with the change of environment. However, current researches on Agent model achieve the Agent's external intelligence attributes through a static model structure. Few research studies the internal reason of its intelligence-Agent's learning ability and adaptability. This paper introduces the concept of mechanism to describe Agent's dynamic properties of ongoing adaptation and learning, and to study the establishment and design of Agent model based on mechanism. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.