Local optimization in cooperative agent networks

Abstract

My research focuses on constructing and analyzing systems of intelligent, autonomous agents. These agents may include people, physical robots, or software programs acting as assistants, teammates, opponents, or trading partners. In a large class of multi-agent scenarios, the effect of local interactions between agents can be compactly represented as a network structure such as a distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) for cooperative domains. Collaboration between large groups of agents, given such a network, can be difficult to achieve