Toward Quantum Computational Agents

Abstract

Abstract. In this chapter, we provide some first thoughts on, and preliminary answers to the question how intelligent software agents could take most advantage of the potential of quantum computation and communication, once practical quantum computers become available in foreseeable future. In particular, we discuss the question whether the adoption of quantum computational and communication means will affect the autonomy of individual and systems of agents. We show that the ability of quantum computing agents to perform certain computational tasks more efficient than classically computing agents is at the cost of limited self-autonomy, due to non-local effects of quantum entanglement.

Coordination of quantum internet agents

“…Quantum internet agents can be classified based on the used quantum communication model. It has been shown in [2] that QC agents are feasible to implement on a hybrid quantum computer in principle.…”

“…A quantum computational agent (QC agent) [2] is an intelligent software agent that is able to perform both classical and quantum computing to accomplish its goals individually, or in joint interaction with other QC agents. The future quantum internet is expected to consist of networked classical and quantum computers, and populated with QC agents, so called quantum internet agents, that operate on quantum computers and communicate with each other according to the quantum communication model of either physical direct quantum transmission, or quantum teleportation, or quantum dense coding, each of which has been experimentally verified.…”

Quantum Optimization and Quantum Learning: A Survey

“…Moreover, [149] shows that any quantum system has a dynamical structure of Hopfield-like associative artificial neural network and the influence on learning with gradient descent method by changing the number of neurons is described in [150]. Besides, [151] discusses the question whether the adoption of quantum computational means will affect systems of agents and the autonomy of individual.…”

Quantum Service Selection

“…Our work combines related work from quantum computing and Web service matchmaking, and builds upon existing work on QC agents [3]. In particular, we exploit quantum associative memories proposed in [6], and several degrees of Web service semantic similarity identified in [4].…”