Distributed Agent-Based Control in Dynamic Environments

We present our research project on distributed, agent-based control in dynamic environments. We motivate the usage of agents and their difficulties in dynamic environments like the Web, and relate this to the fields of distributed and agent-based systems. We describe our idea of lightweight strategies for agents to adapt behavior on disturbances without relying on centralized mechanisms, and outline objectives and challenges of our project. Finally, we explain our simulation experiments as research method, and discuss our initial results to design distributed, lightweight, scalable agents for dynamic environments.