The National Science Foundation awarded Princeton University a $411,476 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop the theoretical foundations of trust-centered resilience for distributed coordination and optimization of multi-agent systems in the presence of adversaries. Specifically, the funding will support research from June 2022 to May 2026 to establish analytical frameworks and efficient exploitation of stochastic information in networks to derive resilient distributed optimization algorithms and consensus protocols. The project aims to relax the classical requirement that distributed systems can tolerate malicious behavior from over half of network participants. Outcomes will include methods for distributed detection and mitigation of attacks while quantifying performance impacts, contributing a unified theory for understanding how inter-agent communication can detect and isolate malicious agents.
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