Multi-policy optimization in decentralized autonomic systems

  • Authors:
  • Ivana Dusparic;Vinny Cahill

  • Affiliations:
  • Trinity College Dublin;Trinity College Dublin

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper addresses the challenge of multi-policy optimization in decentralized autonomic systems. We evaluate several multi-policy reinforcement learning-based optimization techniques in an urban traffic control simulation, a canonical example of a decentralized autonomic system. Our results indicate that W-learning, which learns separately for each policy and then selects between nominated actions based on current action importance, is a suitable approach for optimization towards multiple policies on non-collaborating agents in heterogeneous autonomic environments.