Information Sharing for Distributed Planning (Extended Abstract)
Prasanna Velagapudi · 2010
Large-scale collaborative planning is critical in many domains such as sensor networks and disaster rescue. In large, heterogeneous multiagent teams, agents must work together to create plans that maximize the effectiveness of the team as a whole; coordinating actions to increase efficiency while also avoiding potentially dangerous interactions between teammates. Recognizing the utility of information to agents in teams and delivering it efficiently across a team has also been the focus of much research, with proposed approaches ranging from classic flooding, gossiping, to channel filtering. We combine these two fields of research to study the problem of information sharing mechanisms to distribute planning in both certain and uncertain environments.