University of Southern California
Research Group

Distributed POMDPs
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems

Maintained by Mohit Goenka and Jun-young Kwak

Distributed POMDPs are used to model the problem of deriving joint policies that maximize a reward function for a group of agents in a partially observable environment.
If you wish to share your code and the data sets for Distributed POMDP type formalisms on this page, please contact Jun-young Kwak (junyounk at usc dot edu).

The 6th MSDM workshop is held in conjunction with AAMAS-2011 (the 10th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems), in Taipei, Taiwan. More information can be obtained at:
http://teamcore.usc.edu/junyounk/msdm2011/.


Formalism

References

Code and Datasets

Communication with Locality of Interaction

§        Makoto Tasaki, Yuichi Yabu, Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Yokoo, Janusz Marecki, Pradeep Varakantham, Milind Tambe. Introducing Communication in Dis-POMDPs with Locality of Interaction. In Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, 2010.

 

Team’s REshaping of MOdels for Rapid execution (TREMOR)

§        Pradeep Varakantham, Jun-young Kwak, Matthew Taylor, Janusz Marecki, Paul Scerri, Milind Tambe. Exploiting Coordination Locales in Distributed POMDPs via Social Model Shaping . In ICAPS, 2009.

Code and Datasets

FSM Based Agent Network Search

§        J. Marecki, T. Gupta, P. Varakantham, M. Tambe, M. Yokoo. Not All Agents Are Equal: Scaling up Distributed POMDPs for Agent Networks . In AAMAS, 2008.

 Code

Network Distributed POMDP (ND-POMDP)

§        P. Varakantham, J. Marecki, Y. Yabu, M. Tambe, M. Yokoo. Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: Generating quality guaranteed policies . In AAMAS, 2007.

 

Network Distributed POMDP (ND-POMDP)

§        P. Varakantham, J. Marecki, M. Tambe, M. Yokoo. SPIDER attack on a network of POMDPs: Towards quality bounded solutions . In AAAI Spring Symposium, 2007.

 

Security through Policy Randomization in Distributed POMDPs

§        P. Paruchuri, M. Tambe, F. Ordonez, S. Kraus. Security in Multiagent Systems by Policy Randomization . In AAMAS, 2006.

 

Continuous Space   Distributed POMDPs (CS-JESP)

§         P. Varakantham, R. Nair, M. Tambe, M. Yokoo. Winning back the CUP for distributed POMDPs: Planning over continuous belief spaces . In AAMAS, 2006.

 

Network Distributed POMDP (ND-POMDP)

§        Y. Kim, R. Nair, P. Varakantham, M. Tambe, M. Yokoo. Exploiting Locality of Interaction in Networked Distributed POMDPs . In AAAI Spring Symposium, 2006.

 

Network Distributed POMDP (ND-POMDP)

§         R. Nair, P. Varakantham, M. Tambe, M. Yokoo. Networked Distributed POMDPs: A Synthesis of Distributed Constraint Optimization and POMDPs. In AAAI, 2005.

Code, Datasets

Resource Constraints in Team Settings

§         P.Paruchuri, M. Tambe, F.Ordonez, S.Kraus. Towards a formalization of teamwork with resource constraints. In AAMAS, 2004.

 

Locally Optimal Algorithms for Distributed POMDPs 

§        R. Nair, M. Roth, M. Yokoo, M. Tambe. Communication for Improving Policy Computation in Distributed POMDPs. In AAMAS, 2004.

§        R. Nair, D. Pynadath, M. Yokoo, M. Tambe, S. Marsella. Taming Decentralized POMDPs: Towards Efficient Policy Computation for Multiagent Settings. In IJCAI, 2003.

Code

Role-based Multiagent Team Decision Problem

§        R. Nair, M. Tambe, S. Marsella. Role allocation and reallocation in multiagent systems: Towards a practical analysis. In AAMAS, 2003.

 

Communicative MultiAgent Team Decision Problem (COM-MTDP)

§         Pynadath, D. and Tambe, M. Multiagent teamwork: Analyzing key teamwork theories and models. First Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Conference (AAMAS), 2002

§         Pynadath, D. and Tambe, M. The communicative multiagent team decision problem: Analyzing teamwork theories and models. In Journal of AI Research (JAIR), 2002

Code and Datasets

Relevant Presentations

1.     Presentation on TREMOR at ICAPS, 2009, ppt.

2.     Presentation on ND-POMDPs at AAAI Spring Symposium, 2007, pdf

3.     Presentation on ND-POMDPs at AAAI, 2005.

4.     Presentation on Distributed POMDPs at Microsoft Research, 2004, ppt

5.     Presentation on COM-MTDPs at AAMAS, 2002.