The Effect of Heterogeneity on Coalition Formation in Iterated Request for Proposal Scenarios

This paper explores a general model of economic exchange between heterogeneous agents representing firms, traders, or other socioeconomic entities, that self-organise into coalitions to face specific tasks. In particular, the work addresses coalition formation problems in which many tasks are addressed to the same population over time in an iterative fashion

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EUMAS
• Authors: Carlos Mérida-Campos, Steven Willmott
• Keywords: Agents Representing Firms, EUMAS 2006, Intelligent Agents, Outperforms Conservative Population, Specific Tasks