Over break I applied to pretty many internships. Hopefully I can get one :). I applied to OPower AddThis Boeing Decisive Analytics GAO Near Infinity IDA CGI All of these companies are doing something I am interested in and would allow me to stay in Fairfax.
Author: drew
Co-Opetition!
I finally found the name that describes what I wanted to know if agents could do back in 2010!!!! My original question was: I was wondering: if multiple cooperative agent teams are competing, could they learn when it would be in their best interest to cooperate with a competitor. Now I know I was really… Continue reading Co-Opetition!
A stroke of genius: striving for greatness in all you do (R.W. Hamming)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/Hamming.GoodScience Found this interesting.
Thoughts on old research question
Back in undergrad (July 2010!) my professor, Dr. Babcock, posed the following question in order to help expand my narrow focus: The really interesting question is how does making the individual rules more complex affect the aggregate behavior patterns (or does the society no longer have patterns). As I am studying MAL, swarms and emergence I am… Continue reading Thoughts on old research question
Some swarm thoughts
UPenn researchers have collected examples of swarms or group behaviors found in nature. More than half of the papers describing the collective behavior of swarms exhibited coordination. The cool thing was that they found that coordination behavior is present from killer whales to cancer cell populations! It definitely seems that the ideas of coordination and cooperation are… Continue reading Some swarm thoughts
Characterization of the Culture of Swarms
One of my goals over the winter break was to determine a good paper idea that had a lot of math and that would move the field of large multiagent learning systems forward. Our contributions would be: 1. Alternative shapley value formula for swarms 2. Integration of the swarm value with k-order additive fuzzy measure… Continue reading Characterization of the Culture of Swarms
Trying a new theme
See how I like this new theme called responsive. I think I will like it better because it is wider. However, I switched back to the grunge wall because it was taking too long to set up…
Integrating Agent Models
In my earlier post I was considering combining game theory and measure theory methodologies of MAS and swarm systems. From my research into this topic I found this paper https://jacobstechnology.com/acs/pdf/ESOA06Hybrid.pdf. Although it seems like the people who published it are respectable, the paper has never been cited. Which is strange since it is an interesting topic. They came… Continue reading Integrating Agent Models
Measuring Complexity
I would like to be able to measure the complexity of agents to determine whether a system is really a swarm or if it is a multiagent learning system etc. A discussion of complexity measures: http://tinyurl.com/measurecomplex. By knowing the type of system an outside agent can better adapt to, learn from, or manipulate the system.
Combining Swarms and large MAL systems
I would like to see if game theory and measure theory (in terms of swarms) can be merged to gain a better theoretical understanding of large complex systems of learning agents. I have been reading http://tinyurl.com/mathswarm which describes some of the mathematics behind swarms. Based on this article they use measure theory to model swarm so I… Continue reading Combining Swarms and large MAL systems