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Dependency of Network Structures in Agent Selection and Deployment
Hong Kong, China December 18-December 22
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IAT.2006.522006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Confe ...
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Kensuke Fukuda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Toshio Hirotsu, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan
Shin-ya Sato, NTT Laboratories
Osamu Akashi, NTT Laboratories
Toshiharu Sugawara, NTT Laboratories
This paper shows that the statistical properties of the network topology are indispensable information for improving performance of multi-agent systems (MASs), though they have not received much attention in previous MAS research. In particular we focus on the applicability of the degree of an agent--the number of links among neighboring agents-- to load-balancing for the agent selection and deployment problem. The proposed selection algorithm does not need global information about the network structure and only requires the degree of a server agent and the degrees of the nodes neighboring the server agent. Through simulation of several topologies reproduced by the theoretical network models, we show that the use of the local topological information significantly improves the fairness of the servers even for a large-scale network. We also find that the key mechanisms for load-balancing in a given network topology are highly asymmetric degree characteristics (scalefree) and the negative degree correlation.
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Kensuke Fukuda, Toshio Hirotsu, Satoshi Kurihara, Shin-ya Sato, Osamu Akashi, Toshiharu Sugawara, "Dependency of Network Structures in Agent Selection and Deployment," iat, pp.37-44, 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06), 2006
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