Cost-Benefit Policy-Extraction Using a Multiple-Agent Hybrid Control Architecture(MAHCA). Request to Downsizing: Reducing Costs by Distributed Optimization. Part 2. Executive Summary

摘要

The central hypothesis of this paper is that an optimal composite strategycoordinating the agents for achieving a minimum cost is obtained by an application of the Kohn-Nerode definition of continuity for hybrid systems. The effect is that we can now use infinitesimals to both define the choices available, and construct the equation to be solved. Secure in the knowledge that the optimization strategy for these highly nonlinear combinations is guaranteed to exist, we can guarantee that the finite approximations generated by MAHCA approaches the correct result. The body of the paper provides a notional description of the problem to be optimized (strategic mobility) and an overview of the multiple-agent architecture for extraction of an optimal economic policy law. (AN).