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Title: | On-line coordination: event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents | Authors: | Pham, Manh Tung. Seow, Kiam Tian. |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Source: | 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. | Series/Report no.: | Web intelligence and agent systems | Abstract: | 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. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84486 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11752 |
ISSN: | 1570-1263 | DOI: | 10.3233/WIA-2012-0240 | Schools: | School of Computer Engineering | Rights: | © 2012 IOS Press and the authors. | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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