CAREER: Game Theoretic Methods for Multiagent Coordination

多智能体系统的特征可以是一组相互作用的子系统，每个子系统根据本地信息做出本地决策。在工程和社会科学领域有许多多智能体系统的例子，例如，风力发电场、监视系统和交通网络。不管具体的领域是什么，这种系统的主要目标是设计可接受的机制来协调各个子系统的行为，以确保紧急的集体行为对于系统级目标是可取的。这个项目的首要目标是为多智能体协调开发博弈论方法，广泛适用于社会和工程系统。在社会多智能体系统的背景下，本项目将侧重于在社会对这种机制的敏感性未知的情况下，推导协调集体行为的最佳机制，例如交通网络的税收机制。在工程多智能体系统的背景下，本项目将侧重于(i)保证多智能体系统表现出最佳相关行为的分布式控制算法的推导，以及（ii）与信息模式如何影响多智能体系统中可实现的性能保证有关的基本关系。更广泛的影响这个项目的中心目标包括促进对多智能体系统的一般理解，使其进入工程社区和更广泛的领域。毫无疑问，工程师将负责设计广泛的多智能体系统，其示例涵盖社会的各个方面。成功控制如此复杂的？系统要求工程师是多学科的，在工程和社会科学方面都有很强的熟练程度。该项目将通过与K-12学生的直接互动、公开讲座、传播社会科学和工程科学交叉的课程材料，以及与行业的直接互动来实现这一目标，以说明所开发方法的适用性。

A multiagent system can be characterized by a collection of interacting subsystems each making local decisions in response to local information. There are numerous examples of multiagent systems spanning both the engineering and social sciences, e.g., wind farms, surveillance systems, and transportation networks. Regardless of the specific domain, the primary goal in such systems is to design admissible mechanisms for coordinating the behavior of the individual subsystems to ensure that the emergent collective behavior is desirable with respect to a system-level objective. Intellectual Merit The overarching goal of this project is to develop game-theoretic methodologies for multiagent coordination with broad applicability to both social and engineering systems. In the context of social multiagent systems, this project will focus on the derivation of optimal mechanisms for coordinating the collective behavior in situations where the society's sensitivity to such mechanisms is unknown, e.g., taxation mechanisms on traffic networks. In the context of engineering multiagent systems, this project will focus on the derivation of (i) distributed control algorithms that guarantee that the multiagent systems exhibits the optimal correlated behavior and (ii) fundamental relationships pertaining to how informational patterns impact achievable performance guarantees in multiagent systems.Broader ImpactsA central goal on this project involves promoting the general understanding of multiagent systems to the engineering community and beyond. Undoubtedly, engineers will be responsible for the design of a wide array of multiagent systems with examples spanning all aspects of society. Successfully controlling such ?complex? systems requires that engineers be multi-disciplinary with a strong proficiency in both the engineering and social sciences. This project will seek to achieve this goal through direct interactions with K-12 students, public lectures, dissemination of course material at the intersection of social and engineering sciences, and direct interactions with industry to illustrate the applicability of the developed methodologies.