Coordination of Large-scale Multiagent Systems

by Scerri, Paul; Vincent, Regis; Mailler, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780387261935
• ISBN10: 0387261931
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Challenges arise when the size of a group of cooperating agents is scaled to hundreds or thousands of members. In domains such as space exploration, military and disaster response, groups of this size (or larger) are required to achieve extremely complex, distributed goals. To effectively and efficiently achieve their goals, members of a group need to cohesively follow a joint course of action while remaining flexible to unforeseen developments in the environment.Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems provides extensive coverage of the latest research and novel solutions being developed in the field. It describes specific systems, such as SERSE and WIZER, as well as general approaches based on game theory, optimization and other more theoretical frameworks. It will be of interest to researchers in academia and industry, as well as advanced-level students.

Table of Contents

The effects of locality and asymmetry in large-scale multiagent MDPs	p. 3
A study of scalability properties in robotic teams	p. 27
Comparing three approaches to large-scale coordination	p. 53
Decentralized partner finding in multi-agent systems	p. 75
Distributed coordination of an agent society based on obligations and commitments to negotiated agreements	p. 99
A family of graphical-game-based algorithms for distributed constraint optimization problems	p. 127
Key-based coordination strategies : scalability issues	p. 147
Designing agent utilities for coordinated, scalable and robust multi-agent systems	p. 173
Learning scalable coalition formation in an organizational context	p. 191
Multi-agent coordination in open environments	p. 217
Mobile agents	p. 231
WIZER : automated model improvement in multi-agent social-network systems	p. 255
Handling coordination failures in large-scale multi-agent systems	p. 273
Towards flexible coordination of large scale multi-agent teams	p. 287
Techniques for robust planning in degradable multiagent systems	p. 311
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