Re: communication between agents

[Gadi ORON]

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, iwata wrote:

> I am a new comer for this list and multi-agent field.
> I would like some agents to communicate.  For example,
> Bug1 says "I am hungry," and 
> Bug2 responds to Bug1 "I found food at site A."
> 
> I do not have an idea how to implement this.
> I appreciate if someone shows me a simple program of swarm
> program.

This should not be very difficult, the only thing which might be of some
difficulty is to know who should be getting the message. You have 2
strategies:

1. Each bug takes care of sending the message.

In this case simply define a methode for the bugs ex.

- (site) foundFood
{ if(i_know_of_food) return site; else return nil; }

Whene someone looks for food it should say to all of its known bugs
[bug foundFood] and check the result.

2. The ModelSwarm is in charge of this.
In this case you shuold define a list of bugs looking for food and then
send them a message which inidcates where it is.

Hope this helps.

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