Learning Coordination Strategies for Cooperative Multiagent Systems

  • Authors:
  • F. Ho;M. Kamel

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1. fho@watfast.uwaterloo.ca;Dept. of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1. mkamel@watfast.uwaterloo.ca

  • Venue:
  • Machine Learning
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A central issue in the design of cooperative multiagent systems is how to coordinate the behavior of the agents to meet the goals of thedesigner. Traditionally, this had been accomplished by hand-coding thecoordination strategies. However, this task is complex due to theinteractions that can take place among agents. Recent work in the areahas focused on how strategies can be learned. Yet, many of these systems suffer from convergence, complexity and performance problems.This paper presents a new approach for learning multiagentcoordination strategies that addresses these issues. The effectivenessof the technique is demonstrated using a synthetic domain and thepredator and prey pursuit problem.