ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED COOPERATION BASED ON LINEAR PROGRAMMING METHOD

Toshihiro Matsui, Hiroshi Matsuo

2012

Abstract

Distributed cooperative systems have optimization problems in their tasks. Supporting the collaborations of users, or sharing communications/observations/energy resources, are formalized as optimization problems. Therefore, distributed optimization methods are important as the basis of distributed cooperation. In particular, to handle problems whose variables have continuous domains, solvers based on numerical calculation techniques are important. In a related work, a linear programming method, in which each agent locally performs the simplex method and exchanges the sets of bases, has been proposed. On the other hand, there is another interest in the cooperative algorithm based on a linear programming method whose steps of processing are more distributed among agents. In this work, we study the framework of distributed cooperation based on a distributed linear programming method.

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Matsui T. and Matsuo H. (2012). ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED COOPERATION BASED ON LINEAR PROGRAMMING METHOD . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-96-6, pages 228-233. DOI: 10.5220/0003750702280233


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@conference{icaart12,
author={Toshihiro Matsui and Hiroshi Matsuo},
title={ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED COOPERATION BASED ON LINEAR PROGRAMMING METHOD},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={228-233},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003750702280233},
isbn={978-989-8425-96-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED COOPERATION BASED ON LINEAR PROGRAMMING METHOD
SN - 978-989-8425-96-6
AU - Matsui T.
AU - Matsuo H.
PY - 2012
SP - 228
EP - 233
DO - 10.5220/0003750702280233