Autonomous Gossiping of Information in a P2P Network with Artificial Ants

• Published in: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence pp. 388 - 395
• Main Authors: Guéret, Christophe, Monmarché, Nicolas, Slimane, Mohamed
• Format: Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2006; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Bloom Filter; Communication Layer; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Discrete Event Simulator; Exact sciences and technology; Information Item; Information systems. Data bases; Memory organisation. Data processing; Small World; Software; Groupware; Peer to peer; Insecta; Distributed system; Social insect; Formicoidea; Intelligent agent; Information dissemination; Arthropoda; Gossiping(all to all); User assistance; Concurrent engineering; Swarm intelligence; Hymenoptera; Invertebrata; Aculeata
• ISBN: 3540384820; 9783540384823
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/11839088_37

They appeared in our life some years ago with the awakening of the PC and now the are everywhere : computers have become ubiquitous and, almost, irreplaceable. Classical ways of creating, managing and exchanging information have been progressively replaced by electronic means. In spite of this plebiscite, computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) softwares can be blamed for requiring the user to do an effort to use them. This paper describes an artificial ant based autonomous information dissemination algorithm. It constitutes the communication layer of our framework PIAF (“Personal Intelligent Agent Framework”) intended to help users transparently sharing information. The algorithm uses message gossiping strategy to transfer information items between users.