On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents
This paper addresses a novel coordination problem for distributed agents in a discrete-event setting. We first introduce and study a predicate coordination problem as the problem of two distributed agents interacting and communicating between themselves to satisfy (the invariance of) a global predic...
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| author | Pham, Manh Tung. Seow, Kiam Tian. |
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| description | This paper addresses a novel coordination problem for distributed agents in a discrete-event setting. We first introduce and study a predicate coordination problem as the problem of two distributed agents interacting and communicating between themselves to satisfy (the invariance of) a global predicate specifying an inter-agent constraint. We then develop an optimal coordination policy by which the agents can coordinate to satisfy the predicate constraint. To implement the optimal policy, we develop two on-line coordination strategies including one that can achieve significant savings in communication bandwidth, as demonstrated by simulations. An extension to on-line coordination among multiple agents satisfying multiple constraints is then developed and discussed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/844862020-05-28T07:18:24Z On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents Pham, Manh Tung. Seow, Kiam Tian. School of Computer Engineering This paper addresses a novel coordination problem for distributed agents in a discrete-event setting. We first introduce and study a predicate coordination problem as the problem of two distributed agents interacting and communicating between themselves to satisfy (the invariance of) a global predicate specifying an inter-agent constraint. We then develop an optimal coordination policy by which the agents can coordinate to satisfy the predicate constraint. To implement the optimal policy, we develop two on-line coordination strategies including one that can achieve significant savings in communication bandwidth, as demonstrated by simulations. An extension to on-line coordination among multiple agents satisfying multiple constraints is then developed and discussed. 2013-07-17T06:50:32Z 2019-12-06T15:46:01Z 2013-07-17T06:50:32Z 2019-12-06T15:46:01Z 2012 2012 Journal Article Pham, M. T., & Seow, K. T. (2012). On-line coordination: Event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, 10(2), 179-192. 1570-1263 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84486 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11752 10.3233/WIA-2012-0240 en Web intelligence and agent systems © 2012 IOS Press and the authors. |
| spellingShingle | Pham, Manh Tung. Seow, Kiam Tian. On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents |
| title | On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents |
| title_full | On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents |
| title_fullStr | On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents |
| title_full_unstemmed | On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents |
| title_short | On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents |
| title_sort | on line coordination event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84486 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11752 |
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