A computational market model for distributed configuration design

摘要: This paper presents a precise market model for well-defined class of distributed configuration design problems. Given problem, the defines computational economy to allocate basic resources agents participating in design. The result running these "design economies" constitutes solution original problem. After defining framework, I describe mapping economies and our results date. For some simple examples, system can produce good designs relatively quickly. However, analysis shows that are not guaranteed find optimal designs, we identify discuss major pitfalls. Despite known shortcomings limited explorations thus far, offers useful conceptual viewpoint analyzing