Oliver Guenther, Tad Hogg and Bernardo A. Huberman
Dynamics of Computation Group
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, CA 94304
guenther@parc.xerox.com,
hogg@parc.xerox.com,
huberman@parc.xerox
Xerox PARC technical report, 1996 (Los Alamos preprint cond-mat/9611024)
We study the behavior of several organizations for a market based
distributed control of unstable physical systems and show how a hierarchical
organization is a reasonable compromise between rapid local responses with
simple communication and the use of global knowledge. We also introduce a new
control organization, the multihierarchy, and show that it uses less power
than a hierarchy in achieving stability. The multihierarchy also has a position
invariant response that can control disturbances at the appropriate scale and
location.
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