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ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation in Task-Based Settings
The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multi-agent system...
Viet Dung Dang, Nicholas R. Jennings
STAIRS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Multi-Agent Collaboration: A Satellite Constellation Case
Abstract. Physical agents such as robots are generally constrained in their communication capabilities. In a multi-agent system composed of physical agents, these constraints have ...
Grégory Bonnet, Catherine Tessier
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Coalition formation with spatial and temporal constraints
The coordination of emergency responders and robots to undertake a number of tasks in disaster scenarios is a grand challenge for multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Maria Polukarov, Alessandro...
CLIMA
2011
12 years 5 months ago
Verifying Team Formation Protocols with Probabilistic Model Checking
Multi-agent systems are an increasingly important software paradigm and in many of its applications agents cooperate to achieve a particular goal. This requires the design of effi...
Taolue Chen, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, David Parker, A...