The topologies of cooperation in knowledge intensive multi-agent systems

Hierarchical Collective Agent Network (HCAN) for efficient fusion and management of multiple networked sensors

“…The topology determines how the agents interact with each other, and how data and knowledge are shared and communicated among the agents. In [20], the authors studied three major MAS topology models according to the criteria: (1) the ways of activation, supervision, and communication between the agents; (2) the dependency of the agents to complete a task; and (3) the ways of sharing data, knowledge, and other resources. These models are shown in Figs.…”

“…Zhu et al [20] gave a qualitative assessment of the above three models in terms of their capability of facilitating intensive knowledge embedding, accumulation, and incorporation. They found that the Web-like topology associated with its indiscriminative behavior of agent activation is often inefficient, and many times undesirable.…”

“…In [20], a fourth topology, named Hierarchical Collective Agent Network (HCAN) model is also presented. The HCAN, as shown by diagram in Fig.…”