Measuring Global Behaviour of Multi-agent Systems from Pair-Wise Mutual Information

In this paper we present a method for finding general dependencies between individual agents in a multi-agent system. We use mutual information as the general measure for dependence and demonstrate how it can be used to estimate pair-wise coupling in a 2 dimensional swarm. We then show that our technique of measuring local coupling can find phase transitions in the global behaviour of the system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: KES
• Authors: George Mathews, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, Mikhail Prokopenko
• Keywords: General Dependencies, KES 2005, Multi-agent System, Pair-wise Coupling