IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - November 2021 - 54
Advances in Memetic
Automaton: Toward HumanLike
Autonomous Agents
in Complex Multi-Agent
Learning Problems
Yaqing Hou and Xiangchao Yu
Dalian University of Technology, CHINA
Yifeng Zeng
Northumbria University, UK
Ziqi Wei
Tsinghua University, CHINA
Haijun Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology, CHINA
Hongwei Ge and Qiang Zhang
Dalian University of Technology, CHINA
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2021.3108302
Date of current version: 13 October 2021
54 IEEE COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER 2021
Abstract-The meme-centric memetic automaton (MA) was recently
proposed as an adaptive entity or a software agent wherein memes are
defined as the building blocks of knowledge. The conceptualization of
MA has led to the development of a large number of potentially rich
meme-inspired designs that form a cornerstone of memetic computation
as tools for problem-solving. In this study, we investigate the use of
memetic multi-agent systems to develop more intelligent and humanlike
autonomous agents by taking MA as the essential backbone of the
agent. Taking inspiration from a psychological Broadbent-Treisman
Attenuation Model, we propose an attention intensity control method in
meme expression for enhancing agents' perception of the value of all kinds
of information captured from the environment, hence leading to a greater
capability of meme knowledge generalization. Our particular focus is
Yaqing Hou (houyq@dlut.edu.cn), Hongwei Ge (gehw@dlut.edu.cn), and Qiang
Zhang (zhangq@dlut.edu.cn) are the corresponding authors of this paper.
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