Chli, M., De Wilde, P., Goossenaerts, J., Abramov, V., Szirbik, N., Correia, L., Mariano, P., Ribeiro, R. (2003) Stability of multi-agent systems. In: SMC'03 Conference Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Conference Theme - System Security and Assurance. 1. pp. 551-556. IEEE ISBN 0-7803-7952-7. (doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1243872) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:58048)
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| Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1243872 |
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Abstract
This work attempts to shed light to the fundamental concepts behind the stability of Multi-Agent Systems. We view the system as a discrete time Markov chain with a potentially unknown transitional probability distribution. The system will be considered to be stable when its state has converged to an equilibrium distribution. Faced with the non-trivial task of establishing the convergence to such a distribution, we propose a hypothesis testing approach according to which we test whether the convergence of a particular system metric has occurred. We describe some artificial multi-agent ecosystems that were developed and we present results based on these systems which confirm that this approach qualitatively agrees with our intuition.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1243872 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Decision making; Decision support systems; Distributed computer systems; Game theory; Markov processes; Probability distributions, Artificial multi agent ecosystems; Discrete time Markov chain; Equilibrium distribution, Multi agent systems |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) |
| Institutional Unit: | Schools > School of Computing |
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Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
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| Depositing User: | Philippe De Wilde |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2023 09:29 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2025 08:57 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/58048 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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De Wilde, P..
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