NDLI: Towards a theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems (I)

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Yamins, Daniel
Abstract	There is a growing need for a theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems. one which is able systematically to describe and analyze a variety of problems. This is the first in a series of two papers that begins to develop such a theory. Here, we analyze one particular multi-agent problem - the "equigrouping problem," in which multiple identical agents organize themselves into groups of equal size. We develop a formal model for describing the system and an notion of equivalence characterizing multi-agent algorithms in terms of the group behaviors induced by the algorithm. Our main result is a characterization of the space of all solutions to the equigrouping problem with respect to this group behavior equivalence. The result allows us to obtain infinitely many substantially different solutions to the Equigrouping problem, and to understand these different solutions in a qualitatively satisfying manner. The second paper in this series indicates how to develop and generalize the modeling method obtained here to other problems.
Starting Page	183
Ending Page	190
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1595930930
DOI	10.1145/1082473.1082501
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2005-07-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Local-to-global "local-to-global" Emergent order Theory of algorithms Distributed algorithms
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Towards a theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems (I)