Publication - Reasoning about Coordination Costs in Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent Systems

Authors: Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor
Title: Reasoning about Coordination Costs in Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract: Deliberative agents operating in open environments must make complex real-time control decisions on scheduling and coordination of domain activities. These decisions are made in the context of limited resources and uncertainty about the outcomes of activities. In this paper, we show that reasoning explicitly about the cost of control and domain actions leads to significant improvement in the performance of a multi-agent system. An empirical reinforcement learning algorithm which supports this reasoning process is presented.
Keywords: Agent Control
Publication: Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Bridging the multiagent and multirobotic research gap , pp. 35 - 40
Location: Stanford, CA
Date: March 2004
Sources: PDF: /Documents/Raja_AAAI-SS04.pdf
Reference: Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Reasoning about Coordination Costs in Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Bridging the multiagent and multirobotic research gap , pp. 35-40. March 2004.
bibtex: 
@article{Raja-369,
  author    = "Anita Raja and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Reasoning about Coordination Costs in
               Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent Systems}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on
               Bridging the multiagent and multirobotic research
               gap ",
  pages     = "35-40",
  month     = "March",
  year      = "2004",
  address   = "Stanford, CA",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/369",
}