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.... and outside, to consider market mechanisms as a way of revealing agents true preferences (and thus efficiently allocate resources) Notable among the AI work is that of Smith s Contract Net [82, 83] Malone s Enterprise system [56] the work of Miller and Drexler on Agoric Open Systems [59], and Wellman s WALRAS system [91] The Contract Net is a high level communication protocol for a Distributed Problem Solving system. Its aim is to facilitate the distribution of the tasks among the processors (nodes) that operate in the system. The collection of nodes is itself the contract net. ....

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....accurate and robust. Loopholes that permit crimes such as electronic forgery of currency, and cycle theft (using someone s computer without paying them) can lead not only to loss of computational power and data, but also to direct financial losses. Many groups are already studying these issues [6, 24, 88, 22, 97], and several companies have already started brokering volunteer computing resources for pay as noted in Sect. 2.2.4. Meanwhile, it may also be worthwhile to look into implementing commercial systems with more relaxed mechanisms, such as lotteries and barter trade, that may be less accurate, but ....

.... Furthermore, we may also be able to merge these ideas with other ideas implemented by other systems such as Javelin s scalability techniques and support for branch and bound algorithms [105] Charlotte s distributed shared memory system [12] and the market mechanisms found in other projects [24, 88, 22, 97]. Developing mechanisms for better scalability. Currently, Bayanihan uses a star topology, and is thus not fully scalable. Many other systems today such as 7.3. FINAL WORDS 147 SETI home also have basically star topologies. To maximize the benefits of volunteer computing, it would be useful to ....

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.... to purchase compound goods, and [16] for a discussion of the links between combinatorial auctions and Lagrangean relaxation for the job shop schedulLng problem) Unlike most of the agent mediated markets that have been envisioned for the competitive allocation of computer resources (e.g. 17] [18], 19] and the cooperative allocation of manufacturing resources within a single fm n (e.g. 20] the costs and currency used in a public logistics network would correspond to the real, actual costs associated with providing the service; in most other applications, some type of transfer price ....

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....and the user share. As decay usage scheduling, this scheme offers a crude control of the allocated share. Moreover, the algorithm introduces a high overhead that limits the usage of this scheme to only large grained applications. A different approach was proposed by microeconomic schedulers [9, 10, 14]. These schedulers use the auction mechanism to allocate resources among the competing clients. At the beginning of every timeslice, the resource initiates an auction at which the interested clients participate by bidding monetary funds that increase over time. The client that offers the highest ....

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....is calculated for each profile and is modified according to a users response to articles found by the agent. The ideas of Genetic Algorithms were also adopted by Baclace in his Personal Information Intake Filter [Baclace 1991; Baclace 1992] This filter is also based on ideas from Agoric Systems [Miller Drexler 1988], whereby agents compete via market trading. Each agent is sensitive to features in an article, and possesses a fitness value or store of money . When these features are found within a new article, the agents sensitive to the features rate the article. Agents rating the article get charged for ....

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....has evolved. For an introduction see e.g. the textbook [16] In recent years auctions have found new applications in trade that is performed on computer networks and especially over the Internet. Such applications include electronic commerce [2, 14] computational and network resource allocation [19, 20, 13, 11, 18, 24, 7, 26], trade between software agents [21, 6, 22] and more. With these new applications new questions arise. This paper studies auctions in a setting where the di erent bidders arrive at di erent times and the auction mechanism is required to make decisions about each bid as it is received. This is in ....

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....and optimizing complex distributed systems [DM88] Cle96] In the particular realm of efficient allocation of CPU time, the Enterprise [MFGH88] and Challenger [CMM97] systems make compelling cases for using a market based approach to distribute batch level computations. Agoric computation [MD88] suggests a more radical vision of distributed computation, one in which individual parts of one task can be distributed across multiple machines with the exchange of money controlling and optimizing the computation. Economic exchange should be considered as a basis for the design of a system to ....

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....economic model. 7. RELATED WORK Currently, there are only a few systems documented in the literature that incorporate microeconomic approaches to resource sharing problems. HUBE88] contains a collection of articles that cover the underlying principles and explore the behavior of those systems. [MILL88] uses the term Agoric Systems for software systems deploying market mechanisms for resource allocation among independent objects. The data type agents proposed in that article are comparable to our brokers. They mediate between consumer and supplier objects, helping to find the current best ....

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.... , 1=4 and the dashed line shows the optimal allocation for these payo s. name of genetic algorithms [4] though often in the case in which agents interact with a xed environment rather than each other. Another example is provided by computational systems modelled on ideal economic markets [9, 11], which reward good performance in terms of pro ts. In this case, agents pay for the use of resources, and they in turn are paid for completing their tasks. Those making the best choices collect the most currency and are able to outbid others for the use of resources. Consequently they come to ....

Mark S. Miller and K. Eric Drexler. Markets and computation: Agoric open systems. In B. A. Huberman, editor, The Ecology of Computation, pages 133-176. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988.

....a mechanism to indicate which users should receive priority. In [4] we have presented several arguments in favor of developing Grid architecture for computational economy and its benefits. Like all systems involving goals, resources, and actions, computations can be viewed in economic terms [51]. With the proliferation of networks, high end computing systems architecture has moved from centralized toward decentralized models of control and action; use of economic driven market mechanisms would be a natural extension of this development. The ability of trade and price mechanisms to ....

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....geometry, and external factors. This causes difficult problems concerning resource 3 allocation and task migration. To address this problem we have adopted an approach based on use of simple localized mechanisms such as price, trade, and competition. Such an approach is known as an agoric system [10], and has been shown capable of combining local decisions made by separate agents into globally effective behavior. We have found that in our application such simple mechanisms perform quite satisfactorily. The following sections of this paper will address each of these problems in turn, ....

....problems. In recent years, however, simple distributed systems that use simple, localized mechanisms such as price, trade, and competition have been found to provide surprisingly good performance. Such systems are dubbed agoric systems for the greek word agora meaning 10 market place [10]. Agoric systems are able to combine local decisions made by separate agents into globally effective behavior. These market based ideas work because they do not attempt to formulate the golden rule, or the perfect loop, instead they set up a Computational Ecology [7] in which the simultaneous ....

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....asynchronous and concurrent entities, interacting with an unpredictable environment. These characteristics, which are also found in biological and social communities, have led to the introduction of descriptive terms such as computational ecosystems [44] and to the adoption of market mechanisms [45]. To take the economic approach typically implies the following [46] a) the fundamental problem to be solved is that of resource allocation, b) it is useful to model behavior in terms of the rationality abstraction (as in the agent paradigm) and (c) devise mechanisms to render authority and ....

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....is typically not addressed by WFMS, neither at the workflow specification nor at the execution level. December 10, 1997 8:59 am 2 of 14 In this paper, we present a framework for the consideration of cost time optimization strategies that is based on the principle of agoric open systems [13] (or computational ecologies [8] In such systems, software) components are regarded to act as buyers or sellers in a market. The basic idea of the approach is that objects provide and consume computational resources (such as processor time or memory) Objects that consume a resource have to pay ....

....participants. In contrast to our model, task assignment is then not based on bids of PE, but the task is assigned to that participant whose affirmative reply is received first. Market based mechanisms have been used for the assignment of resources and scheduling of tasks. The work reported in [4, 13, 22] describes how resources such as processor slices or memory can be assigned using market based techniques. There, processes (or their users) are clients bidding for the usage of a resource, and machines (or their owners) sell these resources at some price. Thus, these approaches typically consider ....

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....or will not coordinate their actions sufficiently to achieve the most desirable allocation of resources. The recognition of this reality in many aspects of networks and distributed computations has lead in recent years to the emergence of game theoretic approaches in their analysis and design [23, 9, 25, 33, 15, 16]. Prices, whether they relate to real money in a public network or funny money (based on quotas) in a private system, play a key role as allocation control signals. In the former case, this role is of course intimately tied to another, which is to allow a network provider to remain in ....

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....is that Java has no model of resource accounting, there is no way restrict how much CPU time or memory an agent uses. There are various efforts underway to address this problem [8] 36] Ultimately, we see many exciting research opportunities for applying economic models to resource control [20] [6] Protecting agents from each other is harder, but we believe it can be addressed through a combination of Java strong typing and an authenticated credential system. The problem of protecting agents from malicious hosts is very difficult: solutions are partial at best [27] The Hive ....

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....in electronic commerce. Joule has similar problems to Oz in having a rather cumbersome syntax, and it lacks a clear underlying semantics. We mention it as the only language we are aware of that attempts to implement the ideas of hardware resource encapsulation first proposed by Miller and Drexler [Mi Dr 88] We feel that control of hardware resources is important in making agents autonomous. Our previous research [Hunt 91] shows that abstract concurrent languages cannot always assume hardware resources are unlimited. The mechanisms proposed by Miller and Drexler and implemented in Joule provide a ....

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....which is to obtain practical use in implementing open systems. Kahn and Miller [Ka Mi 88] note the incorporation of mechanisms to deal with hardware failure is an important area for further research if actors and concurrent logic languages are to be used in this context. Miller and Drexler [Mi Dr 88] take the issue of hardware control further by suggesting that the encapsulation and trade of hardware resources by objects, analogous to the way object oriented programming confers ownership of software resources, is a necessity in the future development of open systems languages. The funding ....

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.... of groups of relatively simple behaviours [AD90] or agents [Min86] the role of joint intention and inter agent communication in establishing joint commitments toward common goals [LCN90] and the use of market based systems for example, computational ecologies [HH88] or agoric open systems [MD88] for enabling the robust integration of and flexible resource allocation among asynchronous, heterogeneous, resource bounded computational agents. Summary and Conclusions j 180 9.3 Conclusions The thesis of this dissertation is that it is both desirable and feasible to combine deliberative ....

Mark S. Miller and K. Eric Drexler. Markets and computation: Agoric open systems. In Bernardo A. Huberman, editor, The Ecology of Computation, pages 133--176. Elsevier (North Holland): Amsterdam, NL, 1988.

....pervasive and responsible role in electronic commerce. Even more fundamentally, the proven ability of a free market economy to adjudicate and satisfy the conflicting needs of billions of human agents recommends it as a decentralized organizational principle for billions of software agents as well [Miller and Drexler, 1988]. However, given that software agents can make decisions several orders of magnitude faster than humans, and are vastly less flexible and complex, it is quite conceivable that an agent economy would behave in ways that are entirely unfamiliar. It is thus legitimate to ask whether a free market ....

Mark S. Miller and K. Eric Drexler. Markets and computation: agoric open systems. In B. A. Huberman, editor, The Ecology of Computation, Amsterdam, 1988. North-Holland.

....has evolved. For an introduction see e.g. the textbook [16] In recent years auctions have found new applications in trade that is performed on computer networks and especially over the Internet. Such applications include electronic commerce [2, 14] computational and network resource allocation [19, 20, 13, 11, 18, 24, 7, 26], trade between software agents [21, 6, 22] and more. With these new applications new questions arise. This paper studies auctions in a setting where the di erent bidders arrive at di erent times and the auction mechanism is required to make decisions about each bid as it is received. This is in ....

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....been pro table. This structure of payments and capital allocations is based on simple principles[Bau98] The system is set up so that everything is owned by some agent, interagent transactions are voluntary, and money is conserved in interagent transactions (i.e. what one pays another receives)[MD88]. Under those conditions, if the agents are rational in that they choose to make only pro table transactions, a new agent can earn money only by increasing total payment to the system from the world. But irrational agents are exploited and go broke. In the limit, the only agents that survive are ....

....she pays herself. The guide for all ad hoc choices, e.g. the one tenth pro t fraction, was that the property holder might reasonably make a similar choice if given the option. In principle, all such constants could be learned. By contrast such property rights are not enforced in real ecologies[MD88], simulated ecologies like Tierra[Ray91] and Avida[LOCA99] or other multi agent learning systems such as Lenat s Eurisko[Len83, MD88] or Holland classi er systems[Hol86] When not everything is owned, or money is not conserved, or property rights are not enforced, agents can earn money while ....

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....concern as data and payments ow across the infrastructure. We envision a new service marketplace where both individual operators as well as entire vertically integrated services are made available on a per use or subscription basis. Another interesting model is that of a computational economy [31], where active proxies, services, and user agents participate in an automated marketplace where the commodities are CPU cycles, memory, and bandwidth. Service authors earn revenue by making their service available to others, and active proxies earn revenue by hosting services on behalf of users. ....

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.... Weber 1993) Second, electronic markets seem to be more just and democratic as well as more competitive and decentralised (Himberger et al. 1991; Malone et al. 1987) Third, it seems that some types of market dysfunctions (such as negative externalities) can be avoided through programming (Miller and Drexler 1988), although, of course, the classical negative externalities, such as pollution, will persist as long as there is a physical counterpart to the property rights traded on electronic markets. Following these arguments, electronic markets could be considered manifestations of the 1 von 15 28.08.98 ....

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....importance. Different market concepts have been suggested for, and successfully applied to, a number of applications (e.g. Wellman, 1993, Wellman, 1994, Clearwater and Huberman, 1994, Lenting and Braspenning, 1994, White, 1994, Huberman and Clearwater, 1995, Wellman, 1996, Hu and Wellman, 1996, Miller and Drexler, 1996, Yamaki et al. 1996, Ygge and Akkermans, 1996, Ygge and Akkermans, 1997] One promising approach is to apply general equilibrium theory to actual resource allocation (e.g. Wellman, 1993, Wellman, 1994, Wellman, 1996, Hu and Wellman, 1996, Yamaki et al. 1996, Ygge and Akkermans, 1996, Ygge ....

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....cycles are free or cheap. Value now resides in information, search retrieval, computation, editorial services, evaluations, oversight, credibility, and requirements. Resource coalitions should thrive best in an open market. Miller and Drexler described such a market in their work on agoric systems [MiDr88], which anticipated open markets, agents for identifying resources, and issues of security and trust. Research Opportunities Some early examples of resource coalitions already exist. For the most part, they are established manually and must be operated according to individual, idiosyncratic, ....

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....invocation, or by the amount of data transferred. Mediating services may thus charge either service registration operations (advertising services) or service reference look up (directory services) In the first case service look up is free of charge for clients, in the latter server registration [10]. Despite of the fact that COSM servers are defined by their operational interface, they might constitute a hybrid system consisting of the on line accessible software part and human users who take part in a server s response activity. Mediators which evaluate remote services carry out their task ....

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....message body which can then be identified. Two approaches have been explored in the literature; those using syntactic information, such as keywords, and those using semantic information, as in natural language processing. Baclace (1992) developed a system based on an Agoric Open System approach (Miller and Drexler 1988) which identified specific keywords for personalised information filtering. Other probablistic methods exist based on keywords, such as vector space representations (Salton and McGill 1983) and Latent Semantic Indexing (Foltz and Dumais 1992) PIES (Ram 1992) and SCISOR (Jacobs and Rau 1990) are ....

Miller, M. and K. Drexler (1988). Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems. In B. Huberman (Ed.), The Ecology of Computation, pp. 133--176. North Holland: Elsevier Science Publishers.

....The central theme in economics is the coordination of self interested agents, making choices in situations where information is decentralized and agents have imperfect knowledge and finite resources. There has been significant interest in applying economic models to Distributed AI (Wellman 1993; Miller Drexler 1988). Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) can be classified into two related areas: cooperative distributed problem solving and multiagent systems (MAS) Distributed problem solving is the study of distributed but centrally designed systems (Sycara et al. 1991) where agents are cooperative and ....

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....This framework is especially well suited for distributed systems which are composed of autonomous systems which do not necessarily cooperate to improve the global performance of the system as a whole. Further motivation for this economic paradigm and its potential benefits can be found in [4, 5, 7, 10]. Put comparison to previous work here This paper is structured as follows. Section 2 describes the distributed system and defines the data management problem we address. Section 3 presents the architecture of the data management economy and presents an example. The performance results of this ....

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....after the system is running . In recent years, game theory has been increasingly applied to engineering problems. These are mainly in communication networks for flow control [KL95] routing [KLO95, ORS93] and channel access [KSY85] scheduling [She94] but also in general computational systems [DM88, MD88, Ago]. The ability of trade and price mechanisms to combine local decisions by diverse parties into globally effective behavior suggests their value for organizing computation in large systems. MD88] Indeed, it is unrealistic to hope to centrally plan the behavior of a large and complex system such ....

....and channel access [KSY85] scheduling [She94] but also in general computational systems [DM88, MD88, Ago] The ability of trade and price mechanisms to combine local decisions by diverse parties into globally effective behavior suggests their value for organizing computation in large systems. [MD88] Indeed, it is unrealistic to hope to centrally plan the behavior of a large and complex system such as a computer network with thousands of nodes, or even a single machine with hundreds of processes sharing dozens of resources. In this paper, we are motivated principally by spectrum allocation ....

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.... forms of multiattribute utility functions [25] and their application to expressing different types of planning goals [18, 19] 6 Related work Work on distributed AI has made use of market notions for about a decade, but these uses have been more suggestive than substantive until very recently [26]. The early notion of contract net of Davis and Smith [5] for example, appealed to market metaphors (i.e. bidding for contracts) without providing means for using prices in its protocols, and the society of mind theory of Minsky [27] takes a broad but informal view of mental structure and ....

M. S. Miller and K. E. Drexler. Markets and computation: Agoric open systems. In B. A. Huberman, editor, The Ecology of Computation, pages 133--176. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988.

....to randomized lottery scheduling. The statistical matching technique proposed for the AN2 network exploits randomness to efficiently support frequent dynamic changes in bandwidth allocations [AOST93] Microeconomic schedulers are based on resource allocation techniques in real economic systems [MD88, HH95a, Wel95] Money encapsulates resource rights, and a price mechanism is used to allocate resources. Microeconomic schedulers [DM88, Fer89, WHH 92, Wel93, Bog94] typically use auctions to determine prices and allocate resources among clients that bid monetary funds. However, auction ....

....adjustments to resource funding levels. However, it does not address the more fundamental questions of appropriate funding strategies and dynamic stability. 6.4. 3 System Dynamics An integrated system that concurrently manages multiple resources is likely to resemble a computational economy [MD88, HH95a, Wel95] Tickets are similar to monetary income streams that can be used to buy resources. The number of tickets competing for a resource can be interpreted as its price per unit time. Cost benefit tradeoffs computed by clients are analogous to decision making procedures used by rational ....

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....power of the system s designers to tune its parameters to help it achieve its optimum. In an open system like the Web, no such goal exists. Each agent has its own set of objectives, which may coincide with, conflict with, or (most probably) simply be incommensurable with, the goals of other agents [10]. The success or viability of the economy is determined on an agent by agent basis: if an agent can achieve its goals, the economy works ; if not, it doesn t. Therefore the success of market driven optimization can provide encouragement, but not proof, of a free market agent economy s ultimate ....

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....and the user share. As decay usage scheduling, this scheme offers a crude control of the allocated share. Moreover, the algorithm introduces a high overhead that limits the usage of this scheme to only large grained applications. A different approach was proposed by microeconomic schedulers [9, 10, 14]. These schedulers use the auction mechanism to allocate resources among the competing clients. At the beginning of every timeslice, the resource initiates an auction at which the interested clients participate by bidding monetary funds that increase over time. The client that offers the highest ....

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....for the exchange of goods according to local needs; they can also adjust to unforeseeable changes. Due to such advantages over centralized decision making, economic theory has provided the basis for the development of computational markets for job scheduling problems in distributed computing (Miller Drexler 1988; Huberman Hogg 1993) Most of these computational frameworks mix market and other heuristic mechanisms. Within artificial intelligence, Wellman has proposed the WALRAS computational economy for distributed planning (Wellman 1994) The design of WALRAS is purely couched in terms of ideas about ....

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....are treated by Varian [25, 26] In ecological systems it is the combined behaviour of oneself and the others that determines ones fitness and survival. Treating program systems as ecological systems and ascribing fitness values to programs is treated by Huberman [10] and Miller and Drexler [14]. The models of agent societies developed in this text are all cast in terms of ecologies. The fitness is decided by how much income an agent generates from dealing with other agents. The game theoretic prisoner s dilemma is fundamental to problems of cooperation and in this work. Early computer ....

....very important that they act incognito. If they were not anonymous they might get a special treatment and they would be unable to give a correct judgment. Since the ordinary customers must be indistinguishable from the reviewer agents, they must also be able to act incognito. Miller and Drexler [14] state that for ideal critics reviews the buyer has a large incentive to be anonymous (otherwise he she cannot trust reviews as a means to find good deals) and the (non malicious) seller has every reason to prove his identity to the buyers. Otherwise he she will not get the credit he she ....

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....are at best naive, if not invalid, assumptions, in a multiservice, multimedia network. The recognition of similar realities in many aspects of networks and distributed computations has lead in recent years to the emergence of game theoretic approaches in the analysis and design of these systems [8, 12, 4]. 1 By centralized, we mean that the relationship between demand and price is decided by an a priori formula, even if the actual price levels may vary according to demand e.g. time of day pricing in the telephone network. In an auction, the policy is decentralized in the sense that a given ....

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M. S. Miller and K. E. Drexler. "Markets and Computation: Agoric Open System," The Ecology of Computation, B. Huberman (ed.), North-Holland, 1988, pp. 133-176.

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MILLER,M.S. & DREXLER,K.E. (1988). Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems. In B.A. HUBERMAN,Ed. The Ecology of Computation,pp. 133--176. North Holland: Elsevier Science Publishers.

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Mark S. Miller and K. Eric Drexler. Markets and computation: agoric open systems. In B. A. Huberman, editor, The Ecology of Computation, Amsterdam, 1988.

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