measuring multiagent system diversity

[Tucker Balch]

Pardon me for intruding in this list, but I've been purusing the Swarm pages
and literature and see that there is a great deal of similarity between
my research (multirobot cooperation and diversity) and the work people do 
with Swarm.

I wanted to invite you, if you are interested in heterogeneous systems to
take a look at my work concerning a metric of behavioral diversity.  I 
would be very interested in comments from this community and pointers to
additional work

This tech report, which I am preparing for journal submission is extracted from 
my thesis:

Balch, T.R. Social Entropy: An Information Theoretic Measure of Robot 
Team Diversity.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~trb/papers/divjour.ps.Z

Thanks!


-- Tucker


Tucker Balch
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~trb


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