The Missing Link! A New Skeleton for Evolutionary Multi-agent Systems in Erlang

Jan Stypka; Wojciech Turek; Aleksander Byrski; Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki; Adam D. Barwell; Christopher Brown; Kevin Hammond; Vladimir Janjic

doi:10.1007/s10766-017-0503-4

The Missing Link! A New Skeleton for Evolutionary Multi-agent Systems in Erlang

Jan Stypka
, Wojciech Turek
, Aleksander Byrski
, Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki
, Adam D. Barwell
, Christopher Brown (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Kevin Hammond
, Vladimir Janjic

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Abstract

Evolutionary multi-agent systems (EMAS) play a critical role in many artificial intelligence applications that are in use today. In this paper, we present a new generic skeleton in Erlang for parallel EMAS computations. The skeleton enables us to capture a wide variety of concrete evolutionary computations that can exploit the same underlying parallel implementation. We demonstrate the use of our skeleton on two different evolutionary computing applications: (1) computing the minimum of the Rastrigin function; and (2) solving an urban traffic optimisation problem. We show that we can obtain very good speedups (up to 142.44× the sequential performance) on a variety of different parallel hardware, while requiring very little parallelisation effort.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-22
Number of pages	19
Journal	International Journal of Parallel Programming
Volume	46
Issue number	1
Early online date	26 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10766-017-0503-4
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018

Keywords

Agent-based computing
Algorithmic skeletons
Erlang
Many-core programming
Metaheuristics
Multi-core programming

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Software
Theoretical Computer Science
Information Systems

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