A Tutorial on Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems

Research on optimisation in multi-agent systems has contributed with a wealth of techniques to solve many of the challenges arising in a wide range of multiagent application domains. Multi-agent optimisation focuses on casting multiagent system problems into optimisation problems whose solving could possibly involve the active participation of the agents in a multi-agent system. Research on multi-agent optimisation has rapidly become a very technical, specialised eld. Moreover, the contributions to the eld in the literature are largely scattered. These two factors dramatically hinder the access to a basic, general view of the foundations of the eld. This tutorial is intended to ease such access by providing a gentle introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques on multi-agent optimisation.