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AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Progress on Agent Coordination with Cooperative Auctions
Auctions are promising decentralized methods for teams of agents to allocate and re-allocate tasks among themselves in dynamic, partially known and time-constrained domains with p...
Sven Koenig, Pinar Keskinocak, Craig A. Tovey
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Agent Coordination with Regret Clearing
Sequential single-item auctions can be used for the distributed allocation of tasks to cooperating agents. We study how to improve the team performance of sequential singleitem au...
Sven Koenig, Xiaoming Zheng, Craig A. Tovey, Richa...
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Auction-Based Agent Negotiation via Programmable Tuple Spaces
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
SIGECOM
2000
ACM
142views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
Bidding clubs: institutionalized collusion in auctions
We introduce a class of mechanisms, called bidding clubs, for agents to coordinate their bidding in auctions. In a bidding club agents first conduct a “pre-auction” within th...
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham, Moshe Tennenholtz
SIGECOM
2000
ACM
227views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
Combinatorial auctions for supply chain formation
Supply chain formation presents difficult coordination issues for distributed negotiation protocols. Agents must simultaneously negotiate production relationships at multiple lev...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman, Fredrik Ygge