Increasing programs self-healing on a multi-agent environment of termites

摘要

This paper presents experiments and changes to a mechanism of programs self-healing in an environment of agents looking for food. The failure system is defined based on initial failures that each agent (termite) has on their binary programs. Changes were introduced in the self-healing mechanism to test the self-healing capabilities. Experiments were performed with populations of 100 and 200 agents with 30, 50 and 70 percent of the sick termites at the beginning. Results were organized in terms of the changes in the parameters of the self-healing mechanism and also in terms of sick termites and termites that were healed.