This feedback is then used by the operative agents to bias their searches towards the fittest regions of the landscape.
The operative agents explore blindly the fitness landscape and the monitor provides them with feedback on the quality (fitness) of the proposed solutions.
We find that a weak feedback between the monitor and the operative agents improves the performance of the system, regardless of the difficulty of the problem, which is gauged by the number of local maxima in the landscape.
Here we investigate whether the presence of an inner-eye-like process (monitor) that supervises the activities of a number of subsystems (operative agents) engaged in the solution of a problem can improve the problem-solving efficiency of the system.
With the help of a co-operative agent, the fees, commissions and even parts of players' salaries can find their way back to you (and away from the taxman).
Retailers, warehouses, plants and raw material are modelled as a network of co-operative agents, each performing one or more supply chain functions.
After all, there are now 854,000 "intelligence" operatives, agents, analysts and private contractors who have been given top secret jobs in "Top Secret America" to fight the various top secret "wars"!
The 854,000 operatives, agents, analysts, private contractors and consultants (believed to average about $90,000 per year in salary) are under more than a little pressure to prove they are earning their generous paychecks and in competition with each other to move up the ranks.
Frankie Muniz, the now 18-year-old urchin of "Malcolm in the Middle," is back as a 16-year-old C.I.A. operative in "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London," a sequel to last year's fitfully entertaining "Agent Cody Banks".
