This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $1,009,600 to Arizona State University for research titled "Collaborative Research: SATC: Core: Medium: Foundations of Trust-Centered Multi-Agent Distributed Coordination." The funding period is from June 15, 2022 through May 31, 2026.
The award supports the development of theoretical foundations for trust-centered resilience in distributed coordination and optimization of multi-agent systems operating in adversarial environments. The researchers will establish analytical frameworks to efficiently leverage stochastic side information within networks and derive more robust guarantees of resilience for multi-agent optimization problems under probabilistic models of link corruption. Specific objectives include methods for distributed detection and mitigation of attacks while characterizing achievable performance under adversaries. Outcomes will provide a unified theory for how inter-agent communication can detect and isolate malicious agents while quantifying their impact on system performance. This work aligns with the goals of the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to advance computing and communications through investigator-initiated research.
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