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Multi-Agent Communication and Collaboration

Degree: Master of Science in Engineering
Department: Engineering / Multi-Agent Systems are becoming a popular paradigm for many engineering applications. However, there is still much research to be performed in this fast growing field. In this thesis, the effect of learning in multi-agent systems on communication and
collaboration between agents is investigated. This research focuses on agents learning local cooperative behaviour from a centralised agent, as well as using learning to reduce the amount of communication between agents that use negotiation to achieve their goals.

A simple test problem is formulated in MATLAB. The effect of learning is clearly seen to reduce the amount of communication between agents by up to 50%, while still
maintaining cooperative behaviour. The agents are also demonstrated to learn to a large degree cooperative local behaviour from a central system.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/351
Date24 April 2006
CreatorsVan Aardt, Bradley Justin
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format433057 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf

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