Ants in your P2Pants

Posted by michael on Sunday December 2, 2001 @09:59PM from the riaa-kills-ants-dead dept.

Tim Finin writes: "Anthill is a framework being developed at University of Bologna to support the design, implementation and evaluation of P2P applications, viewing them as instances of Complex Adaptive Systems, typically found in biological and social sciences. In Anthill, desired properties such as resilience, adaptation and self-organization correspond to the "emergent behavior" of the underlying CA system. An Anthill system consists of a dynamic network of peer nodes; societies of adaptive agents (ants) travel through this network, interacting with nodes and cooperating with other agents in order to solve complex problems. The source code for Anthill v1.0 is available for downloading. MORE on this is at ebiquity.org."

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Ant systems for dynamic problems by Titanhead · 2001-12-02 22:53 · Score: 5, Informative

Nice to see a more practical application of ant systems. The past year I have been working with ant systems in a more academic setting: optimizing dynamic problems (problems that change over time) using ant systems. Travelling salesman to be more precise, but my salesmen (sales-ants?) encountered traffic jams.
The research can be found here
Next idea: ant based routing. Get rid off BGP, use ants :)