RECUV faculty member Jason Marden was named a 2015 ONR Young Investigator for his project "Inherent Trade-offs in Multi-agent Coordination."聽Distributed decision-making architectures provide the foundation for designing systems with robust and vast capabilities that are of utmost importance to the Department of Defense. However, it is important to highlight that such architectures also impose constraints on achievable performance guarantees. Here, performance guarantees of interest in multiagent systems span a wide variety of measures including the efficiency of stable solutions, rates of convergence, resilience to adversarial intervention, among others. This project聽will formally initiate a study of characterizing the inherent tradeoffs in multiagent systems with regards to the above measures of performance.