Abstract : We investigate the idea of having groups of agents coevolving in order to iteratively refine multi-agent plans. This idea we called coevolution is formalized and analyzed in a general purpose and applied to the stochastic control frameworks that use an explicit model of the world\,: coevolution can directly be adapted to the frameworks of Multi-Agent Markov Decision Processes (MMDP) and Multi-Agent Partially Observable MDP (MPOMDP). We also consider the decentralized version of MPOMDP (DEC-POMDP) which is known to be a difficult problem\,: we show that the coevolution approach can be applied if we restrict the search to memoryless policies. We evaluate our coevolutive approach experimentally on a typical multi-agent problem.
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Bruno Scherrer, François Charpillet. Coevolutive Planning In Markov Decision Processes. First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS 2002, 2002, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy, 2 p. ⟨inria-00100736⟩
