Smart Agents (was Re: Event-Oriented Computing

[Paul E. Johnson]

"glen e. p. ropella" wrote:
> 

> Cool!  That's the spirit! [grin]  I can't put my money where my mouth
> is on this; but, we should have a competition.  You put ALife into the
> Swarm kernel that hunts down and destroys agents that use system
> calls and I'll put ALife in there that tries to use system calls but
> obfuscates the fact that it uses system calls.  We could develop a
> true co-evolutionarily grown operating system.  Of course, it probably
> wouldn't ever respond to the user.  Who cares about the user when
> you've got agents to battle?

I know y'all are kidding about this, but doesn't Tom Ray's Tierra setup
do almost exactly this? 

On the serious side, I want to say I agree with Glen's original point
about the need to build more intelligent agents.  When I first heard of
swarm, I assumed there would be much more detail in the toolkit about
how to design adaptive agents.

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