Title
The impact of agent definitions and interactions on multiagent learning for coordination in traffic management domains
Abstract
The state-action space of an individual agent in a multiagent team fundamentally dictates how the individual interacts with the rest of the team. Thus, how an agent is defined in the context of its domain has a significant effect on team performance when learning to coordinate. In this work we explore the trade-offs associated with these design choices, for example, having fewer agents in the team that individually are able to process and act on a wider scope of information about the world versus a larger team of agents where each agent observes and acts in a more local region of the domain. We focus our study on a traffic management domain and highlight the trends in learning performance when applying different agent definitions. In addition, we analyze the impact of agent failure for different agent definitions and investigate the ability of the team to learn new coordination strategies when individual agents become unresponsive.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s10458-020-09442-1
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Multiagent systems, Cooperation and coordination, Intelligent agents, Agent definitions
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1387-2532
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jen Jen Chung1219.92
Damjan Miklic2366.92
Lorenzo Sabattini339336.65
kagan tumer41632168.61
Roland Siegwart57640551.49