2003/08/27 by Zsolt Palotai, Palotai, Zsolt, Sándor Mandusitz +5
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.3.3 #H.3.4 #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #cs.IR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0308042
arxiv created 2003/08/27 · openalex publication_date 2003/08/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
WWW has a scale-free structure where novel information is often difficult to locate. Moreover, Intelligent agents easily get trapped in this structure. Here a novel method is put forth, which turns these traps into information repositories, supplies: We populated an Internet environment with intelligent news foragers. Foraging has its associated cost whereas foragers are rewarded if they detect not yet discovered novel information. The intelligent news foragers crawl by using the estimated long-term cumulated reward, and also have a finite sized memory: the list of most promising supplies. Foragers form an artificial life community: the most successful ones are allowed to multiply, while unsuccessful ones die out. The specific property of this community is that there is no direct communication amongst foragers but the centralized rewarding system. Still, fast division of work is achieved.