SGER: Multi-Agent Diagnostics

这笔赠款为多智能体系统诊断工具的开发提供资金。具体而言，本研究将发展的方法来评估的合理性，收敛性和最优的社会偏好或群体目标给定的偏好，局部目标和互动机制的个体代理。所开发的工具将确定条件下的合理性，收敛性和所需的解决方案的质量要求不满足的多智能体系统。这些方法将在工程设计决策的背景下进行测试。这些工具将通过万维网提供给研究界，以验证现有的或计划中的基于代理的应用程序。 如果成功，本研究的结果将提高基于代理的解决方案的复杂系统的控制和协调的性能和可靠性。本研究的主要目标是开发方法来回答有关分布式决策者决策的有效性和质量的基本问题。确定条件下，多代理系统产生可接受的结果将有助于确定适当的应用领域，基于代理的解决方案。

This grant provides funding for tile development of diagnostic tools for multi-agent systems. Specifically, this research will develop methods to evaluate rationality, convergence and op-timality of the social preference or group objective given the preferences, local goals and interaction mechanisms of individual agents. The developed tools will identify conditions under which the rationality, convergence and desired solution quality requirements are not satisfied by the multi-agent system. The methods will be tested in the context of engineering design decision making. The tools will be made available to the research community, via the WWW, to validate existing or planned agent-based applications. If successful, the results of this research will improve the performance and reliability of agent-based solutions for the control arid coordination of complex systems. The primary goal of this research is to develop methods for answering fundamental questions about the validity and quality of decisions made by distributed decision-makers. Identifying conditions under which multi-agent systems produce acceptable results will help to determine appropriate application areas for agent-based solutions.