Andreas Kalaitzakis, Jérôme Euzenat, Multi-tasking resource-constrained agents reach higher accuracy when tasks overlap, in: Proc. 20th European conference on multi-agents systems (EUMAS), Napoli (IT), (Vadim Malvone, Aniello Murano (eds), Proc. 20th European conference on multi-agents systems (EUMAS), Lecture notes in computer science 14282, 2023), pp425-434, 2023
Agents have been previously shown to evolve their ontologies while interacting over a single task. However, little is known about how interacting over several tasks affects the accuracy of agent ontologies. Is knowledge learned by tackling one task beneficial for another task? We hypothesize that multi-tasking agents tackling tasks that rely on the same properties, are more accurate than multi-tasking agents tackling tasks that rely on different properties. We test this hypothesis by varying two parameters. The first parameter is the number of tasks assigned to the agents. The second parameter is the number of common properties among these tasks. Results show that when deciding for different tasks relies on the same properties, multi-tasking agents reach higher accuracy. This suggests that when agents tackle several tasks, it is possible to transfer knowledge from one task to another.
Cultural knowledge evolution, Knowledge transfer, Multi-tasking