Controlling Complex Systems Dynamics without Prior Model

Abstract

Controlling complex systems imposes to deal with high dynamics, non-linearity and multiple interdependencies. To handle these dif¿culties we can either build analytic models of the process to control, or enable the controller to learn how the process behaves. Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems (AMAS) are able to learn and adapt themselves to their environment thanks to the cooperative self-organization of their agents. A change in the organization of the agents results in a change of the emergent function. Thus we assume that AMAS are a good alternative for complex systems control, reuniting learning, adaptivity, robustness and genericity. The problem of control leads to a speci¿c architecture presented in this paper.