# AGENTS.md — Enhancing Population-based Search with Active Inference

**Paper**: Enhancing Population-based Search with Active Inference (2024)
**Area**: Active Inference
**Authors**: Nassim Dehouche, Daniel Friedman

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of Enhancing Population-based Search with Active Inference
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: We propose integrating Active Inference into population-based metaheuristics to enhance performance through anticipatory environmental adaptation. Dem...
- Evaluate: Integrates Active Inference into population-based metaheuristics
- Evaluate: Demonstrates improved ACO on TSP with anticipatory adaptation

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Active Inference augmented ACO
- Assess and document: TSP benchmark evaluation
- Assess and document: Computational performance analysis
- Assess and document: Graph topology analysis

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this active inference work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: population search, Active Inference, Ant Colony Optimization, TSP, metaheuristics
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2024_PopulationSearch.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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