EFFICIENCY OF THE COLLECTIVE MISSION BY A MULTIGENT HETEROGENEOUS GROUP
Keywords:
Agent, group, control object, criterion, efficiency, collectivismAbstract
The article deals with study оf the criteria, parameters and performance indicators for the implementation
of the collective mission of extended space monitoring by a group that includes control
objects with different functionality. The most urgent military-technical task of recent times – monitoring
of extended spaces- is considered as an example of a mission. A feature of the article is the assumption
about of hazardous zones in the monitoring area. Any counteraction from potentially critical
objects may significantly limit the capabilities and even disable the monitoring tools. This proviso
affects for implementation of the mission by the group and leads to a revision of the group collective
strategies and individual strategies for monitoring tools, their movement routes, and decision-making
algorithms and etc. Monitoring tools are modeled as intelligent agents trained by the "collectivism"
paradigm. It provides a common resource of situational awareness of the group, the organization of negotiations between agents and mutual assistance to each other in the event of problem situations.
A general approach has been developed to evaluate the effectiveness of solving collective problems
by a heterogeneous group of agents, taking into account the objective function, resource intensity of
the entire mission and organizing active interaction between agents. It is proposed that the mission
efficiency characteristic expressed as a weighted sum of the normalized indicators of the parameters
of the agents' functions with the weights "significance of the function for the mission" and "value of
the object". It is shown that the loss of efficiency in the performance of a collective mission in the
event of problematic situations with an agent (active enemy action, breakdown, lack of the necessary
functionality, resources, etc.) can be compensated by the required functionality of other agents of the
group with the appropriate reconfiguration of tasks.
