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ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Agents Preferences in Decentralized Task Allocation
The ability to express preferences for specific tasks in multi-agent auctions is an important element for potential users who are considering to use such auctioning systems. This p...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Maria L. Gini
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
127views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Decentralized task allocation using magnet: an empirical evaluation in the logistics domain
This paper presents a decentralized task allocation method that can handle allocation of tasks with time and precedence constraints in a multi-agent setting where not all informat...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Maria L. Gini, Catholijn M. Jonk...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 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
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Decentralized voting with unconditional privacy
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a key issue in multiagent systems. Due to its universality, voting has a central role among preference aggregation mechanisms. Votin...
Felix Brandt, Tuomas Sandholm
BCEC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Adaptive Task Allocation Inspired by a Model of Division of Labor in Social Insects
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...