Multi-Agent Satisficing Control Group
The Multi-Agent Satisficing Control (MASC) Group at Brigham Young
University is interested in developing controllers for problems for which
optimal control methods do not apply. Specifically, the group is developing
a theory of control that applies to time-varying, nonlinear, and multiple
agent problems for which no known optimal solution exists. The theory is
based on the epistemology of Isaac Levi, and is developed around an
epistemic utility functions. This set-valued utility is maximized
yielding the set of maximal epistemic utility. By contrast to the uniqueness
of optimal solutions, any solution in the set of maximal epistemic utility
is acceptable as a solution. Any solution within the maximal set is
called satisficing.
People
Faculty
Graduate Students
Undergraduate
Students
Research Papers
Publications
Abstracts only.
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Making Value-Laden Decisions Under Conflict, W. C. Stirling and R. L. Frost,
In Proceedings 1994 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
volume 2, pages 1559-1564, San Antonio, Texas, October, 1994
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Coordinated Intelligent Control via Epistemic Utility Theory, W. C. Stiring,
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 13(5):21-29, October 1993.
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Decision-making using epistemic utility theory W. C. Stirling, In
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, no. 830, Cristiano Castelfranchi
and Eric Werner editors, Springer-Verlag, 1994.
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An Architecture for Intelligent Control Based on Epistemic Utility Theory.
In Proceedings of the 1994 American Control Conference, pages 2580-2584,
June-July 1994.
Preprints
Abstracts only.
Related Publications
- The Enterprise of Knowledge: An Essay on Knowledge, Credal Probability,
and Chance, Isaac Levi, The MIT Press, 1980
- An Epistemic Utility Approach to Coordination in the Prisoner's Dilemma,
T. K. Moon, R. L. Frost, and W. C. Stirlilng, Biosystems, to appear.
- Epistemic Utility Estimation with Valuational Convexity, V. Kafedziski and D.
Morrell, IEEE Transactions
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 25(1):190-193, January 1995.
- Epistemic Utility Estimation, D. R. Morrell, IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 32(1):129-140, January/February 1993.
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