Publication - Reasoning about Remote Data in CDPS with Distributed Bayesian Network

Authors: Shen, Jiaying, Lesser, Victor, and Carver, Norman
Title: Reasoning about Remote Data in CDPS with Distributed Bayesian Network
Abstract: Existing Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving systems frequently employ fixed coordination strategies to achieve global consistency or global optimality. However, these strategies generally do not exploit the characteristics of the particular problem they are used on. In this paper we propose an algorithm that given a problem formulated as a Distributed Bayesian Network, finds a coordination strategy which minimizes the communication costs while achieving the desired confidence level of the global solution. We develop a system based on this algorithm which models the communication decision process for any given problem structure as a Markov Decision Process and use dynamic programming to produce the optimal communication strategy.
Keywords: Communication, Distributed Bayesian Network, Multi-Agent Systems, Uncertainty
Publication: Proceedings of Multi-Agent Systems and Applications - ACAI 2001 & EASSS 2001 Student Sessions
Location: Prague
Date: July 2001
Sources: PS: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~jyshen/papers/EASSS01.ps
PDF: /Documents/EASSS01_shen.pdf
Reference: Shen, Jiaying, Lesser, Victor, and Carver, Norman. Reasoning about Remote Data in CDPS with Distributed Bayesian Network. Proceedings of Multi-Agent Systems and Applications - ACAI 2001 & EASSS 2001 Student Sessions. July 2001.
bibtex: 
@article{Shen-208,
  author    = "Jiaying Shen and Victor Lesser and Norman Carver",
  title     = "{Reasoning about Remote Data in CDPS with
               Distributed Bayesian Network}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of Multi-Agent Systems and
               Applications - ACAI 2001 \& EASSS 2001 Student
               Sessions",
  month     = "July",
  year      = "2001",
  address   = "Prague",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/208",
}