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The decentralized particularity of self-organizing systems lies in their capacity to spontaneously respond to accommodate environmental changes in a cooperative manner without external control. However, if members cannot obtain observations of the state of the whole team and environment, they have to share their knowledge and policies with each other through communication in order to adapt to the environment appropriately. In this paper, we propose an information sharing mechanism as an independent decision phase to improve individual members\u2019 joint adaption to the world to fulfill an optimal self-organization in general. We design the information sharing decision analogous to human information sharing mechanisms. In this case, information can be shared among individual members by evaluating the semantic relationship of information based on ontology graph and their local knowledge. That is, if individual member collects more relevant information, the information will be used to update its local knowledge and improve sharing relevant information by measuring the ontological relevance. This will enable more related information to be acquired so that their models will be reinforced for more precise information sharing. Our simulations and experimental results show that this design can share information efficiently to achieve optimal adaptive self-organizing systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23030342","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,14]],"date-time":"2021-03-14T22:13:10Z","timestamp":1615759990000},"page":"342","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Adaptive Information Sharing with Ontological Relevance Computation for Decentralized Self-Organization Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Wei","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weizhi","family":"Ran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5103-2526","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sulemana","family":"Nantogma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"165","DOI":"10.1017\/S0269888905000494","article-title":"Self-organization in multi-agent systems","volume":"20","author":"Gleizes","year":"2005","journal-title":"Knowl. 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