Coalition formation in social networks, consisting of a graph of interdependent agents, allows many choices of which task to select and with whom to partner in the social network....
Abstract—Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. We perform an in-depth stu...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Can a good learner compensate for a poor learner when paired in a coordination game? Previous work has given an example where a special learning algorithm (FMQ) is capable of doin...
Keith Sullivan, Liviu Panait, Gabriel Catalin Bala...
Multiagent probabilistic reasoning with multiply sectioned Bayesian networks requires interfacing agent subnets (the modeling task) subject to a set of conditions. To specify the ...