Fully distributed event‐triggered protocols for stochastic multi‐agent systems

Synchronization protocols for reliable communication in fully distributed agent systems

In order to prevent misunderstandings within groups of interacting agents, it is necessary to ensure that the agents’ beliefs regarding the overall state of the interaction are consistent with each other at all times. In [7], Paurobally et al. proposed that these beliefs could be synchronized by adding a specialized protocol layer that incorporates protocols specifically designed to synchronize...

Fully Distributed and Asynchronized Stochastic Gradient Descent for Networked Systems

This paper considers a general data-fitting problem over a networked system, in which many computing nodes are connected by an undirected graph. This kind of problem can find many real-world applications and has been studied extensively in the literature. However, existing solutions either need a central controller for information sharing or requires slot synchronization among different nodes, ...

Formalizing Communication Protocols for Multiagent Systems

Protocols structure interactions among communicating agents. A commitment machine models a protocol in terms of how the commitments of the various parties evolve. Commitment machines thus support flexible behavior while providing a meaningful basis for compliance with a protocol. Unfortunately, current formulations of commitment machines are not sufficiently general or rigorous. This paper deve...

A Multiagent System for Distributed Systems Management

The demand for autonomous resource management for distributed systems has increased in recent years. Distributed systems require an efficient and powerful communication mechanism between applications running on different hosts and networks. The use of mobile agent technology to distribute and delegate management tasks promises to overcome the scalability and flexibility limitations of the curre...

Multiagent Systems for Distributed Intelligent Control