Self organization in service discovery in presence of noncooperative agents
Self organization and cooperation of agents in open societies play an important role in the success of the service discovery process. Self organization allows agents to deal with dynamic requirements in service demand. Moreover, in distributed environments where service discovery is carried out by agents that only have a partial view of the system, cooperation with neighbors is a key issue in order to locate the required services. However, cooperation is not always present in open agent societies. With this motivation, we present a set of mechanisms that consider self organization actions and incentives to adapt the structure of the society to the service demand and to promote a cooperative behavior among agents in open societies.
Neurocomputing