Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems

Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems by Paul Scerri, Régis Vincent, Roger Mailler
English | PDF(True) | 2006 | 343 Pages | ISBN : 0387261931 | 24.6 MB
Challenges arise when the size of a group of cooperating agents is scaled to hundreds or thousands of members. In domains such as space exploration, military and disaster response, groups of this size (or larger) are required to achieve extremely complex, distributed goals. To effectively and efficiently achieve their goals, members of a group need to cohesively follow a joint course of action while remaining flexible to unforeseen developments in the environment.