The Generalized Agreement Process information gathering and information use Sample Clauses

The Generalized Agreement Process information gathering and information use. Suppose we have a population of n agents that must choose between a set of states labelled {b0 . . . b10}; where each state provides some intrinsic utility to the agent. Initially, each agent is assigned a random state – we will assume that initially the agents are in different states and thus the system is not in agreement. We wish to understand what are the necessary processes that will lead to a situation of agreement. Clearly, for agreement to occur some agents must change their state. Thus, the first process is the choice of agents to change state. We call this the Agent Activation process because a set of agents become “active” and possibly change state. Now given that some agents are active, what should these agents do in order to reach agreement? Lets first consider the situation in Figure 3.1(a) which graphs the intrinsic utility of the different states. Lets assume that Agent 1 is currently active and is in state b3. Suppose Agent 1 could calculate the intrinsic utility of its neighboring states, then it would know that state b4 has a higher intrinsic utility than state b3. This could motivate Agent 1 to move to b4. What would happen if all active agents did the same process? If all agents used some type of gradient ascent algorithm then the entire population would reach agreement by autonomously acting in a manner to maximize their utility. Since b5 is the state with the highest value all agents would eventually be in that state. Now consider the situation in Figure 3.1(b), where there are multiple states that have high, and equal, utility. In this case, if each agent followed the same protocol as before and locally optimized their value agreement would most likely not occur. Some of the agents would converge on state b2 and some of the agents would converge on state b6 – both of which are equally good in terms of intrinsic value. The only way to break this impasse is for agents to have access to information about the states of the other agents. That is, the state an agent choose to move to is impacted by the states of other agents. Thus, for agreement to occur, agents must get information about the states of other agents. We call this process Information Gathering and we can see that it is necessary once there are multiple equivalent (in terms of intrinsic utility) states. Once information about the states of other agents is know an agent must make the decision to move to the other states. This is dependent upon several factors. First, how accu...
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