Introduction to distributed algorithms
Introduction to distributed algorithms
On the conversion between non-binary constraint satisfaction problems
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
The Evolution of Customer Middleware Requirements
PDIS '94 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems
The breakout method for escaping from local minima
AAAI'93 Proceedings of the eleventh national conference on Artificial intelligence
Distributed problem solving in sensor networks
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
An asynchronous complete method for distributed constraint optimization
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Performance models for large scale multiagent systems: using distributed POMDP building blocks
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Distributed breakout algorithm for distributed constraint optimization problems -- DBArelax
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Taking DCOP to the Real World: Efficient Complete Solutions for Distributed Multi-Event Scheduling
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Allocating Roles in Extreme Teams
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Allocating tasks in extreme teams
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
The distributed breakout algorithms
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
Adopt: asynchronous distributed constraint optimization with quality guarantees
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
Support-based distributed search: a new approach for multiagent constraint processing
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Nogood based asynchronous distributed optimization (ADOPT ng)
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Distributed Hill Climbing
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
The distributed breakout algorithms
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
Adopt: asynchronous distributed constraint optimization with quality guarantees
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
RoboCup Rescue as multiagent task allocation among teams: experiments with task interdependencies
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Challenges in building very large teams
MMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Massively Multi-Agent Systems
Simple support-based distributed search
AI'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
A value ordering heuristic for local search in distributed resource allocation
CSCLP'04 Proceedings of the 2004 joint ERCIM/CoLOGNET international conference on Recent Advances in Constraints
Adaptive and non-adaptive distribution functions for DSA
PRIMA'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
Improving the privacy of the asynchronous partial overlay protocol
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
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Distributed breakout algorithm (DBA) is an efficient method for solving distributed constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). Inspired by its potential of being an efficient, low-overhead agent coordination method for problems in distributed sensor networks, we study DBA's properties in this paper. We specifically show that on an acyclic graph of n nodes, DBA can find a solution in O(n2) synchronized distributed steps. This completeness result reveals DBA's superiority over conventional local search on acyclic graphs and implies its potential as a simple self-stabilization method for tree-structured distributed systems. We also show a worst case of DBA in a cyclic graph where it never terminates. To overcome this problem on cyclic graphs, we propose two stochastic variations to DBA. Our experimental analysis shows that stochastic DBAs are able to avoid DBA's worst-case scenarios and has similar performance as that of DBA.