Title : 
A mathematical model for learning agents on a multi-agent system
         
        
            Author : 
Furukawa, Masashi ; Watanabe, Michiko ; Kinoshita, Masahiro ; Kakazu, Yukinori
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Asahikawa Nat. Coll. of Technol., Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A term "the learning agent" on the multi-agent system has appeared in the beginning of 1990\´s [LJ Lin, 1991]. Since then, a number of researches have been studied some applications of the learning agents on the basis of reinforcement learning such as SLA and Q-learning incorporated with the automation, as well as [Michiko Watanabe et al., 2001]. However, in designing the learning agents, there are questions; what stands on the state and action model, and the state and action evaluate function? How is the reward designed? This paper aims at developing a mathematical model for the learning agents of the multi-agent system to answer these questions. The learning agent is derived from the introduced formulation. Also, the relation of reward between the multi-agents is analyzed using mathematical model as well.
         
        
            Keywords : 
knowledge acquisition; learning (artificial intelligence); multi-agent systems; Q-learning; action model; learning agents; mathematical model; multiagent system; reinforcement learning; state model; Educational institutions; Information processing; Information technology; Learning automata; Mathematical model; Multiagent systems; Process design; Space technology;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-7866-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222197