?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Evolutionary+Agent+Societies&rft.creator=Romaniuk%2C+Steve+G.&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.description=Evolutionary+Agent+Societies+(EAS)+expand+current+agent-based+IT+solutions%2C+by+further+emphasizing+reliability%2C+scalability%2C+and+adaptability+of+intelligent+software.+Reliability+is+addressed+by+seeking+societies+of+similar+agents%2C+capable+of+cooperating+and+intelligently+dividing+complex+tasks+into+manageable+units.+Autonomous%2C+mobile+agents+capable+of+seeking+each+other+out%2C+based+on+their+inherent+problem+solving+qualities%2C+and+adept+at+forming+loose+societies%2C+are+sought.+Scalability+is+addressed+by+both+providing+mobile+agents+and+having+masses+of+agents+collaborate+with+one+another+in+a+parallel+distributed+manner.+Adaptability+is+addressed+by+supplying+individual+agents+with+the+capability+to+reproduce.+Encoding+agent+capabilities+in+the+form+of+agent+persona's+(defining+an+agent's+capabilities%2C+problem+solving+strategies%2C+and+biases)%2C+and+allowing+for+natural+selection+among+individual+agents+within+a+society%2C+aims+to+harness+the+adaptability+long+observed+and+sought+after+in+biological+systems.+This+paper+reports+ongoing+R%26D+efforts+in+exploiting+EAS+under+the+larger+goal+of+constructing+Autonomously+Learning+Intelligent+Agents+(ALIA)+at+ANSER.+Tackling+the+tasks+of+automatic+Facial+Recognition+from+various+video+sources+and+exploitation+of+intranet%2Finternet+located+data+sources%2C+is+at+the+heart+of+this+effort.&rft.publisher=IIIS%2C+Orlando%2C+Florida&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F461%2F1%2FEAS.html&rft.identifier=++Romaniuk%2C+Steve+G.++(1998)+Evolutionary+Agent+Societies.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F461%2F