Strengthening Admissible Coalitions

We develop a criterion for coalition formation among goal-directed agents, the indecomposable do-ut-des property. The indecomposable do-ut-des property refines the do-ut-des property (literally give to get) by considering the fact that agents prefer to form coalitions whose components cannot be formed independently. A formal description of this property is provided as well as an analysis of algorithms and their complexity.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECAI
• Authors: Guido Boella, Luigi Sauro, Leendert W. N. van der Torre
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Do-ut-des Property, ECAI 2006, Goal-directed Agents, Indecomposable Do-ut-des Property