Ian Clarke (ian at locut.us) wrote: > The idea would be that nodes in the network would constantly evaluate > the overall performance of their neighbors (average response times etc). > Embedded in their IDs, nodes will have a compact description of their > settings (randomly chosen at startup, and periodically modified at > random too). After a while, the top 30% (yet another arbitrary value!) > can then be averaged, and the user's node can reset its own values to > those.
Settings that work well for a node on a Pentium 4 with 2 GB of RAM and Sun Java on Windows XP Pro, might not work so well on a node on a Pentium-120 with 128 MB running Kaffe on OpenBSD. If you want a genetic learning scheme, I'd suggest that a node should randomly tweak its *own* settings and keep statistical results over long periods of time. -- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." greg at wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030328/20fd3461/attachment.pgp>
