OR/MS
Distributed Discovery
collective search under dispersed information
Active research note
Foundations of Distributed Discovery
Defines the core objects and separates information quality from action allocation.
Active research note12 pages
Recommended citation
Nakajima, Yohei (2026). Foundations of Distributed Discovery. Research note.
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Related formulations
These formulations translate a canonical object without changing its scientific scope.
Economics / AGT
Distributed Discovery
information and incentive design for portfolio search
Multi-agent AI
Distributed Discovery
coordinating agent evidence into diverse task actions
Practitioner
Distributed Discovery
turn what the group knows into a deliberate portfolio of attempts
OR/MS
discovery architecture
an information-to-action allocation system
Economics / AGT
discovery architecture
an information structure paired with a game or team decision rule
Multi-agent AI
discovery architecture
an agent topology plus evidence action and reward interfaces
Practitioner
discovery architecture
who sees what who does what and how success is credited
OR/MS
information/action separation
separate information state from action-allocation policy
Economics / AGT
information/action separation
distinguish experiment comparison from decentralized implementation
Multi-agent AI
information/action separation
distinguish better shared context from better joint action coverage
Practitioner
information/action separation
knowing the same thing does not decide who should try what