Machine Learning for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Daniel Kudenko ◽  
Dimitar Kazakov ◽  
Eduardo Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Learning Agents ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
The Relationship

In order to be truly autonomous, agents need the ability to learn from and adapt to the environment and other agents. This chapter introduces key concepts of machine learning and how they apply to agent and multi-agent systems. Rather than present a comprehensive survey, we discuss a number of issues that we believe are important in the design of learning agents and multi-agent systems. Specifically, we focus on the challenges involved in adapting (originally disembodied) machine learning techniques to situated agents, the relationship between learning and communication, learning to collaborate and compete, learning of roles, evolution and natural selection, and distributed learning. In the second part of the chapter, we focus on some practicalities and present two case studies.

Machine Learning for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 403-420
Author(s):  
Daniel Kudenko ◽  
Dimitar Kazakov ◽  
Eduardo Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Learning Agents ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
The Relationship

In order to be truly autonomous, agents need the ability to learn from and adapt to the environment and other agents. This chapter introduces key concepts of machine learning and how they apply to agent and multi-agent systems. Rather than present a comprehensive survey, we discuss a number of issues that we believe are important in the design of learning agents and multi-agent systems. Specifically, we focus on the challenges involved in adapting (originally disembodied) machine learning techniques to situated agents, the relationship between learning and communication, learning to collaborate and compete, learning of roles, evolution and natural selection, and distributed learning. In the second part of the chapter, we focus on some practicalities and present two case studies.

Special Issue on Machine Learning for Robotics and Swarm Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-519
Author(s):  
Masahito Yamamoto ◽  
Takashi Kawakami ◽  
Keitaro Naruse
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Machine Learning Applications ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years, machine-learning applications have been rapidly expanding in the fields of robotics and swarm systems, including multi-agent systems. Swarm systems were developed in the field of robotics as a kind of distributed autonomous robotic systems, imbibing the concepts of the emergent methodology for extremely redundant systems. They typically consist of homogeneous autonomous robots, which resemble living animals that build swarms. Machine-learning techniques such as deep learning have played a remarkable role in controlling robotic behaviors in the real world or multi-agents in the simulation environment. In this special issue, we highlight five interesting papers that cover topics ranging from the analysis of the relationship between the congestion among autonomous robots and the task performances, to the decision making process among multiple autonomous agents. We thank the authors and reviewers of the papers and hope that this special issue encourages readers to explore recent topics and future studies in machine-learning applications for robotics and swarm systems.

scholarly journals A Logic for Agent Organizations

2009 ◽  
pp. 220-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virgina Dignum ◽  
Frank Dignum
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The Relationship

Organization concepts and models are increasingly being adopted for the design and specification of multi-agent systems. Agent organizations can be seen as mechanisms of social order, created to achieve common goals for more or less autonomous agents. In order to develop a theory on the relationship between organizational structures, organizational actions, and actions of agents performing roles in the organization, we need a theoretical framework to describe and reason about organizations. The formal model presented in this chapter is sufficiently generic to enable the comparison of different existing organizational approaches to Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), while having enough descriptive power to describe realistic organizations.

Learning Systems Engineering

2005 ◽  
pp. 1820-1826
Author(s):  
Valentina Plekhanova
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Single Agent ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Learning ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Conventional Machine

Traditionally multi-agent learning is considered as the intersection of two subfields of artificial intelligence: multi-agent systems and machine learning. Conventional machine learning involves a single agent that is trying to maximise some utility function without any awareness of existence of other agents in the environment (Mitchell, 1997). Meanwhile, multi-agent systems consider mechanisms for the interaction of autonomous agents. Learning system is defined as a system where an agent learns to interact with other agents (e.g., Clouse, 1996; Crites & Barto, 1998; Parsons, Wooldridge & Amgoud, 2003). There are two problems that agents need to overcome in order to interact with each other to reach their individual or shared goals: since agents can be available/unavailable (i.e., they might appear and/or disappear at any time), they must be able to find each other, and they must be able to interact (Jennings, Sycara & Wooldridge, 1998).

Learning Systems Engineering

2011 ◽  
pp. 1429-1438
Author(s):  
Valentina Plekhanova
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Single Agent ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Learning ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Conventional Machine

Traditionally multi-agent learning is considered as the intersection of two subfields of artificial intelligence: multi-agent systems and machine learning. Conventional machine learning involves a single agent that is trying to maximise some utility function without any awareness of existence of other agents in the environment (Mitchell, 1997). Meanwhile, multi-agent systems consider mechanisms for the interaction of autonomous agents. Learning system is defined as a system where an agent learns to interact with other agents (e.g., Clouse, 1996; Crites & Barto, 1998; Parsons, Wooldridge & Amgoud, 2003). There are two problems that agents need to overcome in order to interact with each other to reach their individual or shared goals: since agents can be available/unavailable (i.e., they might appear and/or disappear at any time), they must be able to find each other, and they must be able to interact (Jennings, Sycara & Wooldridge, 1998).

Delay Prediction of Aircrafts Based on Health Monitoring Data

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Dattaram ◽  
N. Madhusudanan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Flight Delay ◽  
Delay Prediction ◽  
The Relationship

Flight delay is a major issue faced by airline companies. Delay in the aircraft take off can lead to penalty and extra payment to airport authorities leading to revenue loss. The causes for delays can be weather, traffic queues or component issues. In this paper, we focus on the problem of delays due to component issues in the aircraft. In particular, this paper explores the analysis of aircraft delays based on health monitoring data from the aircraft. This paper analyzes and establishes the relationship between health monitoring data and the delay of the aircrafts using exploratory analytics, stochastic approaches and machine learning techniques.

scholarly journals A Programming Approach to Collective Autonomy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Roberto Casadei ◽  
Gianluca Aguzzi ◽  
Mirko Viroli
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomic Computing ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Programming Approach ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Simulated Case ◽  
Complex Settings

Research and technology developments on autonomous agents and autonomic computing promote a vision of artificial systems that are able to resiliently manage themselves and autonomously deal with issues at runtime in dynamic environments. Indeed, autonomy can be leveraged to unburden humans from mundane tasks (cf. driving and autonomous vehicles), from the risk of operating in unknown or perilous environments (cf. rescue scenarios), or to support timely decision-making in complex settings (cf. data-centre operations). Beyond the results that individual autonomous agents can carry out, a further opportunity lies in the collaboration of multiple agents or robots. Emerging macro-paradigms provide an approach to programming whole collectives towards global goals. Aggregate computing is one such paradigm, formally grounded in a calculus of computational fields enabling functional composition of collective behaviours that could be proved, under certain technical conditions, to be self-stabilising. In this work, we address the concept of collective autonomy, i.e., the form of autonomy that applies at the level of a group of individuals. As a contribution, we define an agent control architecture for aggregate multi-agent systems, discuss how the aggregate computing framework relates to both individual and collective autonomy, and show how it can be used to program collective autonomous behaviour. We exemplify the concepts through a simulated case study, and outline a research roadmap towards reliable aggregate autonomy.

scholarly journals A New Era of Neuro-Oncology Research Pioneered by Multi-Omics Analysis and Machine Learning

Biomolecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 565
Author(s):  
Satoshi Takahashi ◽  
Masamichi Takahashi ◽  
Shota Tanaka ◽  
Shunsaku Takayanagi ◽  
Hirokazu Takami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Clinical Situation ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Omics Data ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Oncology Research ◽  
Omics Analysis ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

Although the incidence of central nervous system (CNS) cancers is not high, it significantly reduces a patient’s quality of life and results in high mortality rates. A low incidence also means a low number of cases, which in turn means a low amount of information. To compensate, researchers have tried to increase the amount of information available from a single test using high-throughput technologies. This approach, referred to as single-omics analysis, has only been partially successful as one type of data may not be able to appropriately describe all the characteristics of a tumor. It is presently unclear what type of data can describe a particular clinical situation. One way to solve this problem is to use multi-omics data. When using many types of data, a selected data type or a combination of them may effectively resolve a clinical question. Hence, we conducted a comprehensive survey of papers in the field of neuro-oncology that used multi-omics data for analysis and found that most of the papers utilized machine learning techniques. This fact shows that it is useful to utilize machine learning techniques in multi-omics analysis. In this review, we discuss the current status of multi-omics analysis in the field of neuro-oncology and the importance of using machine learning techniques.

scholarly journals Group Behavior Learning in Multi-Agent Systems Based on Social Interaction Among Agents

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 896-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Zhang ◽  
◽  
Yoichiro Maeda ◽  
Yasutake Takahashi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Cooperative Behavior ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
State Of The Environment

Research on multi-agent systems, in which autonomous agents are able to learn cooperative behavior, has been the subject of rising expectations in recent years. We have aimed at the group behavior generation of the multi-agents who have high levels of autonomous learning ability, like that of human beings, through social interaction between agents to acquire cooperative behavior. The sharing of environment states can improve cooperative ability, and the changing state of the environment in the information shared by agents will improve agents’ cooperative ability. On this basis, we use reward redistribution among agents to reinforce group behavior, and we propose a method of constructing a multi-agent system with an autonomous group creation ability. This is able to strengthen the cooperative behavior of the group as social agents.

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