We investigate the issue of multiagent learning with focus on the interactions among the learning agents. Each agent learns directly from the other agents that operate in the same environment. Each agent computes a function that expresses its satisfaction level after it performs an action, and after the other agents have expressed their degree of approval of the agent's behavior. Each agent adj...

As a result, the authors make conclusion that classical utopia crisis has been overcome and there is trend for further development of utopian discourse due to adaptive transformation invariants in society after modernism.

This paper presents a simple adaptation mechanism to automatically adjust the ratio of foragers to resters (division of labour) in a swarm of foraging robots and hence maximise the net energy income to the swarm. Three adaptation rules are introduced based on local sensing and communications. Individual robots use internal cues (successful food retrieval), environmental cues (collisions with te...

As the international community continues to engage in protracted negotiations over how to implement reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the likelihood that society will face disturbances from extreme events and prolonged warming has increased. There is therefore a need to better understand the process by which adaptation occurs and in particular how the social, ecological and institutional ...