Controlling chaos in distributed systems

Hogg, Tad; Huberman, Bernardo A.

doi:10.1109/21.135679

Controlling chaos in distributed systems

Tad Hogg
(
- Xerox, Palo Alto
)
,
Bernardo A. Huberman
(
- Xerox, Palo Alto
)

Aug 29, 1990

20 pages

Published in:

IEEE Trans.Syst.Man Cybern. 21 (1991) 1325-1332

DOI:

10.1109/21.135679

Report number:

PRINT-90-0538

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A simple and robust procedure for freezing out chaotic behavior in systems composed of interacting agents making decisions based on imperfect and delayed information is described. It is based on a reward mechanism whereby the relative number of computational agents following effective strategies is increased at the expense of the others. This procedure, which generates a diverse population out of an essentially homogeneous one, is able to control chaos through a series of dynamical bifurcations into a stable fixed point. Stability boundaries are computed and the minimal amount of diversity required in the system is established

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