Cooperative Search with Concurrent Interactions

In this paper we show how taking advantage of autonomous agents' capability to maintain parallel interactions with others, and incorporating it into the cooperative economic search model results in a new search strategy which outperforms current strategies in use. As a framework for our analysis we use the electronic marketplace, where buyer agents have the incentive to search cooperatively. The new search technique is quite intuitive, however its analysis and the process of extracting the optimal search strategy are associated with several signi

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JAIR
• Authors: Efrat Manisterski, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus
• Keywords: Cooperative Economic Search, JAIR 2008, Optimal Search Strategy, Search Strategy