Organization-Based Coalition Formation

In this paper we show how imposing an organization (topology and search mechanism) on agents in a peerto-peer network can improve system performance. The organizational structure is the underlying topolgy connecting agents in the system. The search mechanism is how agents are traversed in such a topology. In particular, we discuss our solutions to a resource allocation problem, involving coalition formation, and a content retrieval problem, involving locating relevant documents.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Sherief Abdallah, Victor R. Lesser
• Keywords: ATAL 2004, Resource Allocation Problem, Search Mechanism, Topolgy Connecting Agents