ILS: A system of learning distributed heterogeneous agents for network traffic management

Integrated Learning System (ILS) is a framework for integrating several distributed heterogeneous learning agents that cooperate to improve problem-solving performance. The agents learn both independently and cooperatively. Each agent has been tested independently using telecommunications traffic control as a domain, and each has demonstrated that it can learn by interacting with that domain. At present, ILS is being extensively tested using the same domain, and the initial results are very promising