Speeding up the Search of a Global Dynamic Equilibrium from a Local Cooperative Decision

Sébastien Maignan, Carole Bernon, Pierre Glize

2018

Abstract

Systems composed of many interdependent active entities working on shared resources can be challenging to regulate and multi-agent simulation is an efficient means for finding the suitable entities’ behaviors. On the other hand, the search space for a stable solution of the system is usually forbidding and hinders any effort to solve the problem using a top-down approach. Furthermore, the complexity of possible global functions to optimize increases rapidly with the size of the system and can prove difficult to define and/or evaluate at each system simulation step. The difficulty when designing bottom-up systems is to be able to identify all their emergent properties and the parameters to modulate them. Here we propose a local cooperative decision making process that helps to stabilize such systems. These local processes prove to be very efficient to quickly find dynamic equilibrium solutions where the system continues to function and fulfills its global function. Regulation emerges from simple local interactions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Maignan S., Bernon C. and Glize P. (2018). Speeding up the Search of a Global Dynamic Equilibrium from a Local Cooperative Decision.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-275-2, pages 143-150. DOI: 10.5220/0006540101430150

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart18,
author={Sébastien Maignan and Carole Bernon and Pierre Glize},
title={Speeding up the Search of a Global Dynamic Equilibrium from a Local Cooperative Decision},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2018},
pages={143-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006540101430150},
isbn={978-989-758-275-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Speeding up the Search of a Global Dynamic Equilibrium from a Local Cooperative Decision
SN - 978-989-758-275-2
AU - Maignan S.
AU - Bernon C.
AU - Glize P.
PY - 2018
SP - 143
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0006540101430150