Intractable problems in control theory
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The complexity of Markov decision processes
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Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems: networks of plausible inference
Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems: networks of plausible inference
The contract net protocol: high-level communication and control in a distributed problem solver
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on knowledge representation
Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems
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Collaborative plans for complex group action
Artificial Intelligence
KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains
Artificial Intelligence
The dynamics of reinforcement learning in cooperative multiagent systems
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General principles of learning-based multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Communication decisions in multi-agent cooperation: model and experiments
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Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers
Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers
The Complexity of Decentralized Control of Markov Decision Processes
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Sequential Optimality and Coordination in Multiagent Systems
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Learning to Cooperate via Policy Search
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Symbolic heuristic search for factored Markov decision processes
Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
Transition-independent decentralized markov decision processes
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Optimizing information exchange in cooperative multi-agent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The complexity of multiagent systems: the price of silence
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Decentralized Language Learning through Acting
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Dynamic programming for partially observable stochastic games
AAAI'04 Proceedings of the 19th national conference on Artifical intelligence
The communicative multiagent team decision problem: analyzing teamwork theories and models
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Efficient solution algorithms for factored MDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Taming decentralized POMDPs: towards efficient policy computation for multiagent settings
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Exploiting structure in policy construction
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Distributed planning in hierarchical factored MDPs
UAI'02 Proceedings of the Eighteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Multiagent coordination by Extended Markov Tracking
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Reasoning about joint beliefs for execution-time communication decisions
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A polynomial algorithm for decentralized Markov decision processes with temporal constraints
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Game theoretic Golog under partial observability
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Decentralized planning under uncertainty for teams of communicating agents
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agent interaction in distributed POMDPs and its implications on complexity
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Mixed-integer linear programming for transition-independent decentralized MDPs
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Collaborative Multiagent Reinforcement Learning by Payoff Propagation
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Learning to communicate in a decentralized environment
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Information searching and sharing in large-scale dynamic networks
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Exploiting factored representations for decentralized execution in multiagent teams
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Commitment-driven distributed joint policy search
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Modeling plan coordination in multiagent decision processes
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Searching and sharing information in networks of heterogeneous agents
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Using Swarm-GAP for Distributed Task Allocation in Complex Scenarios
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Lossless clustering of histories in decentralized POMDPs
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Achieving goals in decentralized POMDPs
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Solving multiagent assignment Markov decision processes
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Incorporating helpful behavior into collaborative planning
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Decentralised dynamic task allocation: a practical game: theoretic approach
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
An iterative algorithm for solving constrained decentralized Markov decision processes
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Population and agent based models for language convergence
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Networked distributed POMDPs: a synthesis of distributed constraint optimization and POMDPs
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Partially-synchronized DEC-MDPs in dynamic mechanism design
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Solving transition independent decentralized Markov decision processes
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Communication-based decomposition mechanisms for decentralized MDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Optimal and approximate Q-value functions for decentralized POMDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Communicating effectively in resource-constrained multi-agent systems
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Team programming in Golog under partial observability
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Offline Planning for Communication by Exploiting Structured Interactions in Decentralized MDPs
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On-line Coordination: Event Interaction and State Communication between Cooperative Agents
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Myopic and Non-myopic Communication under Partial Observability
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Language learning in multi-agent systems
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Networked distributed POMDPs: a synergy of distributed constraint optimization and POMDPs
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
A unification-based approach to configure generic protocols into agent interaction models
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Adaptation and Evolution in Dynamic Persistent Environments
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
RoboCup Rescue as multiagent task allocation among teams: experiments with task interdependencies
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Game-theoretic agent programming in Golog under partial observability
KI'06 Proceedings of the 29th annual German conference on Artificial intelligence
Commitment-based service coordination
SOCASE'08 Proceedings of the 2008 AAMAS international conference on Service-oriented computing: agents, semantics, and engineering
Multi-policy optimization in self-organizing systems
SOAR'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on Self-organizing architectures
Resource-driven mission-phasing techniques for constrained agents in stochastic environments
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Online planning for multi-agent systems with bounded communication
Artificial Intelligence
Planning in stochastic domains for multiple agents with individual continuous resource state-spaces
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Decentralized MDPs with sparse interactions
Artificial Intelligence
Towards a unifying characterization for quantifying weak coupling in dec-POMDPs
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Decentralized monitoring of distributed anytime algorithms
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Solving efficiently Decentralized MDPs with temporal and resource constraints
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Overlay networks for task allocation and coordination in large-scale networks of cooperative agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The complexity of finding an optimal policy for language convergence
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on From Animals to Animats: simulation of Adaptive Behavior
Indirect interaction in environments for multi-agent systems
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Information sharing and searching via collaborative reinforcement learning
SETN'12 Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic conference on Artificial Intelligence: theories and applications
Producing efficient error-bounded solutions for transition independent decentralized mdps
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Incremental clustering and expansion for faster optimal planning in decentralized POMDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Sharing rewards in cooperative connectivity games
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
On-line coordination: Event interaction and state communication between cooperative agents
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Large-scale cooperative task distribution on peer-to-peer networks
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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Decentralized control of cooperative systems captures the operation of a group of decision-makers that share a single global objective. The difficulty in solving optimally such problems arises when the agents lack full observability of the global state of the system when they operate. The general problem has been shown to be NEXP-complete. In this paper, we identify classes of decentralized control problems whose complexity ranges between NEXP and P. In particular, we study problems characterized by independent transitions, independent observations, and goal-oriented objective functions. Two algorithms are shown to solve optimally useful classes of goal-oriented decentralized processes in polynomial time. This paper also studies information sharing among the decision-makers, which can improve their performance. We distinguish between three ways in which agents can exchange information: indirect communication, direct communication and sharing state features that are not controlled by the agents. Our analysis shows that for every class of problems we consider, introducing direct or indirect communication does not change the worst-case complexity. The results provide a better understanding of the complexity of decentralized control problems that arise in practice and facilitate the development of planning algorithms for these problems.