Granular Computing in Multi-agent Systems
In recent years multi-agent systems have emerged as one of the interesting architectures facilitating distributed collaboration and distributed problem solving.Each node (agent) of the network might pursue its own agenda,exploit its environment,develop its own problem solving strategy and establish required communication strategies.Within each node of the network,one could encounter a diversity of problem-solving approaches.Quite commonly the agents can realize their processing at the level of information granules that is the most suitable from their local points of view.Information granules can come at various levels of granularity.Each agent could exploit a certain formalism of information granulation engaging a machinery of fuzzy sets,interval analysis,rough sets,just to name a few dominant technologies of granular computing.Having this in mind,arises a fundamental issue of forming effective interaction linkages between the agents so that they fully broadcast their findings and benefit from interacting with others.
Granular computing Fuzzy sets Rough sets Multi-agent systems Communication schemes Granularity of information
Witold Pedrycz
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Alberta,Edmonton AB T6R 2G7 Canada and System Research Institute,Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw,Poland
国际会议
成都
英文
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2008-05-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）