Agent Reasoning Mechanism for Long-Term Coalitions Based on Decision Making and Trust

We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents. We present a coalition formation mechanism designed at the agent level as a decision problem. The proposed mechanism is analyzed at both system and agent levels. Our results show that the coalition formation mechanism is beneficial for both the system

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CI
• Authors: Julita Vassileva, Silvia Breban, Michael C. Horsch
• Keywords: Agent Levels, CI 2002, Coalition, Coalition Formation Mechanism