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AGENTS
2000
Springer
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Customer coalitions in the electronic marketplace
1 In the last few years, the electronic marketplace has witnessed an exponential growth in worth and size, and projections are for this trend to intensify in coming years. Yet, th...
Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia P. Sycara
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Coalition formation with uncertain heterogeneous information
Coalition formation methods allow agents to join together and are thus necessary in cases where tasks can only be performed cooperatively by groups. This is the case in the Reques...
Sarit Kraus, Onn Shehory, Gilad Taase
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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Complexity of determining nonemptiness of the core
Coalition formation is a key problem in automated negotiation among self-interested agents, and other multiagent applications. A coalition of agents can sometimes accomplish thing...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ICTAI
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Task Allocation via Multi-Agent Coalition Formation: Taxonomy, Algorithms and Complexity
Coalition formation has become a key topic in multiagent research. In this paper, we propose a preliminary classification for the coalition formation problem based on three drivin...
Hoong Chuin Lau, Lei Zhang
ECAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Agreements Without Disagreements
The first part of this paper presents a coalition formation method for multi-agent systems which finds a Pareto optimal solution without aggregating the preferences of the agents. ...
Samir Aknine, Philippe Caillou
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive, Confidence-Based Multiagent Negotiation Strategy
We propose an adaptive 1-to-many negotiation strategy for multiagent coalition formation in dynamic, uncertain, real-time, and noisy environments. Our strategy focuses on multi-is...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Xin Li
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Advantages of Compromising in Coalition Formation with Incomplete Information
This paper presents protocols and strategies for coalition formation with incomplete information under time constraints. It focuses on strategies for coalition members to distribu...
Sarit Kraus, Onn Shehory, Gilad Taase
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Bayesian Reinforcement Learning for Coalition Formation under Uncertainty
Research on coalition formation usually assumes the values of potential coalitions to be known with certainty. Furthermore, settings in which agents lack sufficient knowledge of ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Craig Boutilier
SAC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A robust deception-free coalition formation model
We study two properties of coalition formation algorithms, very important for their application in real-life scenarios: robustness and tolerance to some agent misbehaviors. The st...
María-Victoria Belmonte, Ricardo Conejo, Jo...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Trusted kernel-based coalition formation
We define Trusted Kernel-based Coalition Formation as a novel extension to the traditional kernel-based coalition formation process which ensures agents choose the most reliable ...
Bastian Blankenburg, Rajdeep K. Dash, Sarvapali D....