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ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
Decentralized Supply Chain Formation: A Market Protocol and Competitive Equilibrium Analysis
Supply chain formation is the process of determining the structure and terms of exchange relationships to enable a multilevel, multiagent production activity. We present a simple ...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
MarketSAT: An Extremely Decentralized (but Really Slow) Algorithm for Propositional Satisfiability
We describe MarketSAT, a highly decentralized, marketbased algorithm for propositional satisfiability. The approach is based on a formulation of satisfiability as production on a ...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman
CCGRID
2009
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient Grid Task-Bundle Allocation Using Bargaining Based Self-Adaptive Auction
To address coordination and complexity issues, we formulate a grid task allocation problem as a bargaining based self-adaptive auction and propose the BarSAA grid task-bundle alloc...
Han Zhao, Xiaolin Li
IROS
2006
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
An Analysis of Random Peer-to-Peer Communication for System-Level Coordination in Decentralized Multiple-Robot Systems
— Inter-robot communication is essential if general purpose intelligent decentralized multiple-robot systems are to become a reality. Traditionally, explicit communication amongs...
Chris A. C. Parker, Hong Zhang