Kiran Lakkaraju
ABSTRACT
Multi-Agent Agreement Problems (MAP) - the ability of a population of agents to search out and converge on a common state - are central issues in many multi-agent settings, from distributed sensor networks, to meeting scheduling, to development of norms, conventions, and language. While much work has been done on particular agreement problems no unifying framework exists for comparing MAPs that vary in, e.g., strategy space complexity, inter-agent accessibility, and solution type, and understanding their relative complexities. We present such a unification, the Distributed Optimal Agreement (DOA) framework, and show how it captures a wide variety of agreement problems. To demonstrate DOA and its power we apply it to convention evolution. 1
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- A unified framework for multi-agent agreement
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