Agent network topology and complexity

  • Authors:
  • Xiaolong Jin;Jiming Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Hong Kong Baptist University;Hong Kong Baptist University

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine two multi-agent based representations of SATs and further experimentally study the topologies of resulting agent networks. We show that different representations will make agent networks manifest different topologies. In one presentation, the resulting agent network show obviously small-world topologies. Generally speaking, a small-world topology will computationally harden a search process. Therefore, we propose a guiding design principle that to solve a search problem by a multi-agent system, it should avoid having small-worlds among agents and it should maintain balanced intra- and inter-agent computational complexity.