Agent-based approaches to manufacturing scheduling and control have gained increasing attention in recent years. Such approaches are attractive because they o er increased robustn...
The two main questions in coalition games are 1) what coalitions should form and 2) how to distribute the value of each coalition between its members. When a game is not superaddit...
Abstract-- This paper presents a method for creating evaluation functions that efficiently promote coordination in a multiagent system, allowing single-agent evolutionary computati...
The process of coalition formation, where distinct autonomous agents come together to act as a coherent group is an important form of interaction in multiagent systems. Previous w...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...