Emergent Power Delineation in Multi-Agent Swarms

Abstract

An organization is well delineated when all its members have a relative power ranking that is neither too high nor too low. Since responsibility and authority follow fully deconflicted patterns, a delineated organization is well suited for solving problems. We have developed a low-latency, agent-level algorithm for non-deterministically establishing power levels and provide a metric for quantifying the appropriateness of rankings. An agent's rank is appropriate if it has a unique chain of superiors leading to the highest-ranking individual.