Design and Evaluation of Distributed Role Allocation Algorithms in Open Environments

Abstract

Role allocation has emerged as one of the key issue in teamwork involving communication. While direct point-to-point communication is expensive and uncertain, access to neighbors is reliable and efficient in scale-free networks such as those found in open environments and social networks. This suggests decentralized approaches to role allocation based on communication between neighbors. This paper adapts and evaluates some of the basic types of algorithms in distributed role allocation in open environments using a novel coordination measure in the prey/predator domain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA521701

Entities

People

  • Myriam Abramson
  • Ranjeev Mittu
  • William Chao

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agent-Based Simulations
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collisions
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Grids
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Military Research
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Networks
  • Optimization
  • Perception
  • Sensor Networks
  • Situational Awareness
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.