Towards a theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems (II)

a growing need to study abstract problems in distributed multi-agent systems in a systematic way, as well as to provide a qualitative mathematical framework in which to compare possible underlying system mechanisms. It is therefore of interest to have a coherent theory of “local to global” in distributed multiagent systems, one which is able to describe and to analyze a variety of problems. This is the second in a series of papers that begins developing such a theory. Here, we describe four divergent but representative “problems” – 1) equigrouping of mobile agents 2) flocking of mobile agents, 3) coordinate system labeling among fixed agents and 4) spatial structuring of mobile agents – in simple but precise terms. We then introduce a unified modeling framework that captures the commonalities of the four problems. Our goal is to establish that the descriptive and analytical approach taken in the other papers in this series may be generalized to more complex and realisti...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Daniel Yamins
• Keywords: ATAL 2005, Mobile Agents, Multiagent Systems, Qualitative Mathematical Framework