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In the era of 5G/B5G, computing-intensive, delay-sensitive applications such as virtual reality inevitably bring huge amounts of data to the network. In order to meet the real-time requirements of applications, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) pushes computing resources and data from the centralized cloud to the edge network, providing users with computing offload technology. However, the mismatch between the great computing requirements of computing-intensive tasks and the limited computing power of a single edge server poses a great challenge to computing offload technology. In this paper, a multi-agent cooperation mechanism for MEC and a routing mechanism based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) are proposed. First of all, a multi-agent cooperation mechanism is proposed to realize the cooperative processing of computing-intensive and delay-sensitive applications, and the task unloading decision-making problem based on multi-agent cooperation is studied. Secondly, the cooperative processing of tasks by multi-agents involves data transmission. Considering the real-time requirements of tasks, this paper proposes an intelligent routing mechanism based on DRL to plan the optimal routing path. Finally, the simulation implementation and performance evaluation of the multi-agent cooperation mechanism and routing mechanism for MEC are carried out. The experimental results show that the intelligent routing mechanism based on DRL and graph neural network is superior to the comparison mechanism in terms of network average delay, throughput and maximum link bandwidth utilization. At the same time, the superiority of graph neural network in model generalization is verified on a new network topology National Science Foundation (NSF) Net. The results of route optimization are applied to the multi-agent cooperation mechanism, and the experimental results show that the mechanism is superior to the comparison scheme in terms of task success rate and average task response delay. The combination of these two mechanisms well solves the problem that it is difficult to deal with computing-intensive and delay-sensitive applications in mobile edge computing because of its limited resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The identification, prediction, management, and control of economic and financial systems render extremely challenging tasks, which require comprehensively integrating the knowledge of different expert systems. Ontology, as a state-of-the-art knowledge modeling technique, has been extensively applied in the domain of economics and finance. However, due to ontology engineers' subjectivity, ontology suffers from the heterogeneity issue, which hampers the co-operation among the intelligent expert system based on them. To address this issue, ontology matching for finding heterogeneous concept pairs between two ontologies has been rapidly developed. It is difficult to find the perfect ontology alignment that satisfies the needs of all decision-makers. Therefore, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm, such as Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II), attracts many researchers' attention. However, when facing large-scale ontology matching problems, NSGA-II tends to fall into local optimal solutions due to the large search space. To effectively address this drawback, we model the large-scale ontology problem as a nonlinear optimization problem, and propose an Adaptive Co-Evolutionary NSGA-II (ACE-NSGA-II) to deal with it. Compared with NSGA-II, ACE-NSGA-II introduces a co-evolutionary mechanism to increase the diversity of populations in order to decrease the probability of premature convergence. In particular, ACE-NSGA-II uses an adaptive population maintenance strategy to assign more resources toward the dominant ones in order to improve the solution efficiency for solving large-scale ontology matching. The experiment utilizes the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI)'s benchmark and anatomy track to test the effectiveness of ACE-NSGA-II, and the resulting experiment demonstrated that compared to NSGA-II and OAEI's participants, ACE-NSGA-II is able to find better alignment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]