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Multi-agent Optimization

Author : Angelia Nedić
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319971425
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Multi-agent Optimization by : Angelia Nedić

Download or read book Multi-agent Optimization written by Angelia Nedić and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains three well-written research tutorials that inform the graduate reader about the forefront of current research in multi-agent optimization. These tutorials cover topics that have not yet found their way in standard books and offer the reader the unique opportunity to be guided by major researchers in the respective fields. Multi-agent optimization, lying at the intersection of classical optimization, game theory, and variational inequality theory, is at the forefront of modern optimization and has recently undergone a dramatic development. It seems timely to provide an overview that describes in detail ongoing research and important trends. This book concentrates on Distributed Optimization over Networks; Differential Variational Inequalities; and Advanced Decomposition Algorithms for Multi-agent Systems. This book will appeal to both mathematicians and mathematically oriented engineers and will be the source of inspiration for PhD students and researchers.

Agent-Based Optimization

Author : Ireneusz Czarnowski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642340970
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis Agent-Based Optimization by : Ireneusz Czarnowski

Download or read book Agent-Based Optimization written by Ireneusz Czarnowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of original research works by leading specialists focusing on novel and promising approaches in which the multi-agent system paradigm is used to support, enhance or replace traditional approaches to solving difficult optimization problems. The editors have invited several well-known specialists to present their solutions, tools, and models falling under the common denominator of the agent-based optimization. The book consists of eight chapters covering examples of application of the multi-agent paradigm and respective customized tools to solve difficult optimization problems arising in different areas such as machine learning, scheduling, transportation and, more generally, distributed and cooperative problem solving.

Distributed Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Agent Networks in Complex Environments

Author : Minghui Zhu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319190725
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Distributed Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Agent Networks in Complex Environments by : Minghui Zhu

Download or read book Distributed Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Agent Networks in Complex Environments written by Minghui Zhu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a concise and in-depth exposition of specific algorithmic solutions for distributed optimization based control of multi-agent networks and their performance analysis. It synthesizes and analyzes distributed strategies for three collaborative tasks: distributed cooperative optimization, mobile sensor deployment and multi-vehicle formation control. The book integrates miscellaneous ideas and tools from dynamic systems, control theory, graph theory, optimization, game theory and Markov chains to address the particular challenges introduced by such complexities in the environment as topological dynamics, environmental uncertainties, and potential cyber-attack by human adversaries. The book is written for first- or second-year graduate students in a variety of engineering disciplines, including control, robotics, decision-making, optimization and algorithms and with backgrounds in aerospace engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and operations research. Researchers in these areas may also find the book useful as a reference.

Cooperative Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Jeff Shamma
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470724194
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (241 download)

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Book Synopsis Cooperative Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems by : Jeff Shamma

Download or read book Cooperative Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems written by Jeff Shamma and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradigm of ‘multi-agent’ cooperative control is the challenge frontier for new control system application domains, and as a research area it has experienced a considerable increase in activity in recent years. This volume, the result of a UCLA collaborative project with Caltech, Cornell and MIT, presents cutting edge results in terms of the “dimensions” of cooperative control from leading researchers worldwide. This dimensional decomposition allows the reader to assess the multi-faceted landscape of cooperative control. Cooperative Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems is organized into four main themes, or dimensions, of cooperative control: distributed control and computation, adversarial interactions, uncertain evolution and complexity management. The military application of autonomous vehicles systems or multiple unmanned vehicles is primarily targeted; however much of the material is relevant to a broader range of multi-agent systems including cooperative robotics, distributed computing, sensor networks and data network congestion control. Cooperative Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems offers the reader an organized presentation of a variety of recent research advances, supporting software and experimental data on the resolution of the cooperative control problem. It will appeal to senior academics, researchers and graduate students as well as engineers working in the areas of cooperative systems, control and optimization.

Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications

Author : Leonard Barolli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030440389
Total Pages : 1487 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications written by Leonard Barolli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 1487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings book presents the latest research findings, and theoretical and practical perspectives on innovative methods and development techniques related to the emerging areas of Web computing, intelligent systems and Internet computing. The Web has become an important source of information, and techniques and methodologies that extract quality information are of paramount importance for many Web and Internet applications. Data mining and knowledge discovery play a key role in many of today's major Web applications, such as e-commerce and computer security. Moreover, Web services provide a new platform for enabling service-oriented systems. The emergence of large-scale distributed computing paradigms, such as cloud computing and mobile computing systems, has opened many opportunities for collaboration services, which are at the core of any information system. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that builds intelligent systems and algorithms that work and react like humans. AI techniques and computational intelligence are powerful tools for learning, adaptation, reasoning and planning, and they have the potential to become enabling technologies for future intelligent networks. Research in the field of intelligent systems, robotics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences is vital for the future development and innovation of Web and Internet applications. Chapter "An Event-Driven Multi Agent System for Scalable Traffic Optimization" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Fixed-Time Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Zongyu Zuo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030202798
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Fixed-Time Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems by : Zongyu Zuo

Download or read book Fixed-Time Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems written by Zongyu Zuo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents new theories and methods for fixed-time cooperative control of multi-agent systems. Fundamental concepts of fixed-time stability and stabilization are introduced with insightful understanding. This book presents solutions for several problems of fixed-time cooperative control using systematic design methods. The book compares fixed-time cooperative control with asymptotic cooperative control, demonstrating how the former can achieve better closed-loop performance and disturbance rejection properties. It also discusses the differences from finite-time control, and shows how fixed-time cooperative control can produce the faster rate of convergence and provide an explicit estimate of the settling time independent of initial conditions. This monograph presents multiple applications of fixed-time control schemes, including to distributed optimization of multi-agent systems, making it useful to students, researchers and engineers alike.

Game-Theoretic Learning and Distributed Optimization in Memoryless Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Tatiana Tatarenko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319654799
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Game-Theoretic Learning and Distributed Optimization in Memoryless Multi-Agent Systems by : Tatiana Tatarenko

Download or read book Game-Theoretic Learning and Distributed Optimization in Memoryless Multi-Agent Systems written by Tatiana Tatarenko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new efficient methods for optimization in realistic large-scale, multi-agent systems. These methods do not require the agents to have the full information about the system, but instead allow them to make their local decisions based only on the local information, possibly obtained during communication with their local neighbors. The book, primarily aimed at researchers in optimization and control, considers three different information settings in multi-agent systems: oracle-based, communication-based, and payoff-based. For each of these information types, an efficient optimization algorithm is developed, which leads the system to an optimal state. The optimization problems are set without such restrictive assumptions as convexity of the objective functions, complicated communication topologies, closed-form expressions for costs and utilities, and finiteness of the system’s state space.

Probability Collectives

Author : Anand Jayant Kulkarni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319160001
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Probability Collectives written by Anand Jayant Kulkarni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an emerging computational intelligence tool in the framework of collective intelligence for modeling and controlling distributed multi-agent systems referred to as Probability Collectives. In the modified Probability Collectives methodology a number of constraint handling techniques are incorporated, which also reduces the computational complexity and improved the convergence and efficiency. Numerous examples and real world problems are used for illustration, which may also allow the reader to gain further insight into the associated concepts.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Author : John Hooker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319983342
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming by : John Hooker

Download or read book Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming written by John Hooker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2018, held in Lille, France, in August 2018.The 41 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. They deal with all aspects of computing with constraints including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The papers were organized according to the following topics/tracks: main technical track; applications track; CP and data science; CP and music; CP and operations research; CP, optimization and power system management; multiagent and parallel CP; and testing and verification.

Principles in Noisy Optimization

Author : Pratyusha Rakshit
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811086427
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Principles in Noisy Optimization written by Pratyusha Rakshit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noisy optimization is a topic of growing interest for researchers working on mainstream optimization problems. Although several techniques for dealing with stochastic noise in optimization problems are covered in journals and conference proceedings, today there are virtually no books that approach noisy optimization from a layman’s perspective; this book remedies that gap. Beginning with the foundations of evolutionary optimization, the book subsequently explores the principles of noisy optimization in single and multi-objective settings, and presents detailed illustrations of the principles developed for application in real-world multi-agent coordination problems. Special emphasis is given to the design of intelligent algorithms for noisy optimization in real-time applications. The book is unique in terms of its content, writing style and above all its simplicity, which will appeal to readers with a broad range of backgrounds. The book is divided into 7 chapters, the first of which provides an introduction to Swarm and Evolutionary Optimization algorithms. Chapter 2 includes a thorough review of agent architectures for multi-agent coordination. In turn, Chapter 3 provides an extensive review of noisy optimization, while Chapter 4 addresses issues of noise handling in the context of single-objective optimization problems. An illustrative case study on multi-robot path-planning in the presence of measurement noise is also highlighted in this chapter. Chapter 5 deals with noisy multi-objective optimization and includes a case study on noisy multi-robot box-pushing. In Chapter 6, the authors examine the scope of various algorithms in noisy optimization problems. Lastly, Chapter 7 summarizes the main results obtained in the previous chapters and elaborates on the book’s potential with regard to real-world noisy optimization problems.

Intelligent Computing & Optimization

Author : Pandian Vasant
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030932478
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Computing & Optimization written by Pandian Vasant and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes the scientific results of the fourth edition of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization which took place at December 30–31, 2021, via ZOOM. The conference objective was to celebrate “Compassion and Wisdom” with researchers, scholars, experts and investigators in Intelligent Computing and Optimization worldwide, to share knowledge, experience, innovation—marvelous opportunity for discourse and mutuality by novel research, invention and creativity. This proceedings encloses the original and innovative scientific fields of optimization and optimal control, renewable energy and sustainability, artificial intelligence and operational research, economics and management, smart cities and rural planning, meta-heuristics and big data analytics, cyber security and blockchains, IoTs and Industry 4.0, mathematical modelling and simulation, health care and medicine.

Autonomous Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Markus Hannebauer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540458344
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Autonomous Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multi-Agent Systems by : Markus Hannebauer

Download or read book Autonomous Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multi-Agent Systems written by Markus Hannebauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High communication efforts and poor problem solving results due to restricted overview are two central issues in collaborative problem solving. This work addresses these issues by introducing the processes of agent melting and agent splitting that enable individual problem solving agents to continually and autonomously reconfigure and adapt themselves to the particular problem to be solved. The author provides a sound theoretical foundation of collaborative problem solving itself and introduces various new design concepts and techniques to improve its quality and efficiency, such as the multi-phase agreement finding protocol for external problem solving, the composable belief-desire-intention agent architecture, and the distribution-aware constraint specification architecture for internal problem solving. The practical relevance and applicability of the concepts and techniques provided are demonstrated by using medical appointment scheduling as a case study.

Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining

Author : Mieczyslaw A. Klopotek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540213314
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining by : Mieczyslaw A. Klopotek

Download or read book Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining written by Mieczyslaw A. Klopotek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book contains articles accepted for presentation during The Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining Conference IIS:IIP WM¿04 held in Zakopane, Poland, on May 17-20, 2004. Considerable attention is devoted to the newest developments in the area of Artificial Intelligence with special calls for contributions on Web mining. This book will be a valuable source for further research in the fields of data mining, intelligent information processing, machine learning, computational linguistics, or natural language processing for search engines.

Second-Order Consensus of Continuous-Time Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Huaqing Li
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323901328
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)

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Book Synopsis Second-Order Consensus of Continuous-Time Multi-Agent Systems by : Huaqing Li

Download or read book Second-Order Consensus of Continuous-Time Multi-Agent Systems written by Huaqing Li and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second-Order Consensus of Continuous-Time Multi-Agent Systems focuses on the characteristics and features of second-order agents, communication networks, and control protocols/algorithms in continuous consensus of multi-agent systems. The book provides readers with background on consensus control of multi-agent systems and introduces the intrinsic characteristics of second-order agents’ behavior, including the development of continuous control protocols/algorithms over various types of underlying communication networks, as well as the implementation of computation- and communication-efficient strategies in the execution of protocols/algorithms. The book's authors also provide coverage of the frameworks of stability analysis, algebraic criteria and performance evaluation. On this basis, the book provides an in-depth study of intrinsic nonlinear dynamics from agents’ perspective, coverage of unbalanced directed topology, random switching topology, event-triggered communication, and random link failure, from a communication networks’ perspective, as well as leader-following control, finite-time control, and global consensus control, from a protocols/algorithms’ perspective. Finally, simulation results including practical application examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and the practicability of the control protocols and algorithms proposed in this book. Introduces the latest and most advanced protocols and algorithms in second-order consensus of continuous time, multi-agent systems with various characteristics Provides readers with in-depth methods on how to construct the frameworks of stability analysis, algebraic criteria, and performance evaluation, thus helping users develop novel consensus control methods Includes systematic introductions and detailed implementations on how control protocols and algorithms solve problems in real world, second-order, multi-agent systems, including solutions for engineers in related fields

Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Yves Demazeau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642287867
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems by : Yves Demazeau

Download or read book Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems written by Yves Demazeau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become THE international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach. This edition of PAAMS brings together past experience, current work, and promising future trends associated with distributed computing, artificial intelligence and their application in order to provide efficient solutions to real problems. This symposium is organized by the Bioinformatics, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of the University of Salamanca. The present edition will be held in Salamanca, Spain, from 28th to 30th March 2012. This edition of PAAMS brings together past experience, current work, and promising future trends associated with distributed computing, artificial intelligence and their application in order to provide efficient solutions to real problems. This symposium is organized by the Bioinformatics, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of the University of Salamanca. The present edition will be held in Salamanca, Spain, from 28th to 30th March 2012.

Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems

Author : Paul Scerri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387279725
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems by : Paul Scerri

Download or read book Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems written by Paul Scerri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 efficiently achieve their goals, members of a group need to cohesively follow a joint course of action while remaining flexible to unforeseen developments in the environment. Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems provides extensive coverage of the latest research and novel solutions being developed in the field. It describes specific systems, such as SERSE and WIZER, as well as general approaches based on game theory, optimization and other more theoretical frameworks. It will be of interest to researchers in academia and industry, as well as advanced-level students.

Project Scheduling

Author : Jan Weglarz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461555337
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Project Scheduling written by Jan Weglarz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project scheduling problems are, generally speaking, the problems of allocating scarce resources over time to perform a given set of activities. The resources are nothing other than the arbitrary means which activities complete for. Also the activities can have a variety of interpretations. Thus, project scheduling problems appear in a large spectrum of real-world situations, and, in consequence, they have been intensively studied for almost fourty years. Almost a decade has passed since the multi-author monograph: R. Slowinski, 1. W~glarz (eds. ), Advances in Project Scheduling, Elsevier, 1989, summarizing the state-of-the-art across project scheduling problems, was published. Since then, considerable progress has been made in all directions of modelling and finding solutions to these problems. Thus, the proposal by Professor Frederick S. Hillier to edit a handbook which reports on the recent advances in the field came at an exceptionally good time and motivated me to accept the challenge. Fortunately, almost all leading experts in the field have accepted my invitation and presented their completely new advances often combined with expository surveys. Thanks to them, the handbook stands a good chance of becoming a key reference point on the current state-of-the-art in project scheduling, as well as on new directions in the area. The contents are divided into four parts. The first one, dealing with classical models -exact algorithms, is preceded by a proposition of the classification scheme for scheduling problems.