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Lagrangian relaxation for large-scale multi-agent planning
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012), 4-8 June, Valencia, Spain
  • Geoff GORDON, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM, Singapore Management University
  • William YEOH, Singapore Management University
  • Ajay SRINIVASAN, Singapore Management University
  • Hoong Chuin LAU, Singapore Management University
  • Shih-Fen CHENG, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2012
Abstract

Multi-agent planning is a well-studied problem with applications in various areas. Due to computational constraints, existing research typically focuses either on unstructured domains with many agents, where we are content with heuristic solutions, or domains with small numbers of agents or special structure, where we can find provably near-optimal solutions. In contrast, here we focus on provably near-optimal solutions in domains with many agents, by exploiting influence limits. To that end, we make two key contributions: (a) an algorithm, based on Lagrangian relaxation and randomized rounding, for solving multi-agent planning problems represented as large mixed-integer programs; (b) a proof of convergence of our algorithm to a near-optimal solution.

Keywords
  • Multi-agent Planning,
  • Lagrangian Relaxation
ISBN
9780981738130
Identifier
10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.252
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
Valencia, Spain
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.252
Citation Information
Geoff GORDON, Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM, William YEOH, Ajay SRINIVASAN, et al.. "Lagrangian relaxation for large-scale multi-agent planning" Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012), 4-8 June, Valencia, Spain (2012) p. 1227 - 1228
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sfcheng/28/