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Steven de Jong, Karl Tuyls, and Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper. Robust and Scalable Coordination of Potential-Field Driven Agents. In the International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC 2006), 29 November - 1 December, Sydney - Australia, 2006.
In this paper, we introduce a nature-inspired multi-agentsystem for resource distribution in large storage facilities.The system is based on potential fields and swarm intelligence,in which straightforward path planning is integrated.We show both experimentally and theoretically that the systemis adaptive, robust and scalable. Moreover, we showthat the planning component helps to overcome commonpitfalls for nature-inspired systems in the task assignmentdomain.We end this paper with a discussion of an additional requirementfor multi-agent systems interacting with humans:functionality. More precisely, we argue that such systemsmust behave in a fair way to be functional. We illustratehow fairness can be measured and illustrate that our systembehaves in a moderately fair manner.
@INPROCEEDINGS{JongIAWTIC06,
author = {Steven de Jong and Karl Tuyls and Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper},
title = {Robust and Scalable Coordination of Potential-Field Driven Agents},
booktitle = {the International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC 2006)},
year = {2006},
abstract = {In this paper, we introduce a nature-inspired multi-agent
system for resource distribution in large storage facilities.
The system is based on potential fields and swarm intelligence,
in which straightforward path planning is integrated.
We show both experimentally and theoretically that the system
is adaptive, robust and scalable. Moreover, we show
that the planning component helps to overcome common
pitfalls for nature-inspired systems in the task assignment
domain.
We end this paper with a discussion of an additional requirement
for multi-agent systems interacting with humans:
functionality. More precisely, we argue that such systems
must behave in a fair way to be functional. We illustrate
how fairness can be measured and illustrate that our system
behaves in a moderately fair manner.},
address = {29 November - 1 December, Sydney - Australia},
bib2html_pubtype = {Refereed Conference},
bib2html_rescat = {Swarm Intelligence},
owner = {K.Tuyls},
timestamp = {2006.11.23},
}
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