Playing With Population Protocols

Olivier Bournez (1) , Jérémie Chalopin (2) , Johanne Cohen (3)

1 LIX - Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau]
2 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
3 CARTE - Theoretical adverse computations, and safety

Population protocols have been introduced as a model of sensor networks consisting of very limited mobile agents with no control over their own movement: A collection of anonymous agents, modeled by finite automata, interact in pairs according to some rules. Predicates on the initial configurations that can be computed by such protocols have been characterized under several hypotheses. We discuss here whether and when the rules of interactions between agents can be seen as a game from game theory. We do so by discussing several basic protocols.

Domaines: Complexité [cs.CC]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Olivier Bournez, Jérémie Chalopin, Johanne Cohen. Playing With Population Protocols. International Workshop on The Complexity of Simple Programs, Dec 2008, Cork, Ireland. ⟨inria-00330344⟩