The impact of agent definitions and interactions on multiagent learning for coordination in traffic management domains
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Date
2020-04Type
- Journal Article
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. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000396540Publication status
publishedExternal links
Journal / series
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsVolume
Pages / Article No.
Publisher
SpringerSubject
Multiagent systems; Cooperation and coordination; Intelligent agents; Agent definitionsOrganisational unit
03737 - Siegwart, Roland Y. / Siegwart, Roland Y.
Funding
779942 - CROWDBOT (EC)
Notes
It was possible to publish this article open access thanks to a Swiss National Licence with the publisher.More
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