Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scerri, Paul (Editor), Vincent, Régis (Editor), Mailler, Roger (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Mathematical logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Theory of Computation.; Computation by Abstract Devices.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Challenges arise when the size of a group of cooperating agents is scaled to hundreds or thousands of members. In domains such as space exploration, military and disaster response, groups of this size (or larger) are required to achieve extremely complex, distributed goals. To effectively and effici...