General principles of learning-based multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Product Distribution Theory for Control of Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Product Distribution Theory for Control of Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Distributed faulty sensor detection
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
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Product Distribution (PD) theory was recently developed as a framework for analyzing and optimizing distributed systems. In this paper we demonstrate its use for adaptive distributed control of Multi-Agent Systems (MASýs), i.e., for distributed stochastic optimization using MASýs. One common way to perform the optimization is to have each agent run a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm. PD theory provides an alternative based upon using a variant of Newtonýs method operating on the agentýs probability distributions. We compare this alternative to RL-based search in three sets of computer experiments. The PD-theory-based approach outperforms the RL-based scheme in all three domains.