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AI
1999
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation with Worst Case Guarantees
Coalition formation is a key topic in multiagent systems. One may prefer a coalition structure that maximizes the sum of the values of the coalitions, but often the number of coal...
Tuomas Sandholm, Kate Larson, Martin Andersson, On...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
114views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Game Theoretical Analysis of Cooperative Sourcing Scenarios
As an emerging trend in outsourcing, cooperative sourcing is the merging of similar processes of several firms when, for example, several banks merge their payments processing and...
Daniel Beimborn, Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Tim Weitz...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Coalition game-based distributed coverage of unknown environments by robot swarms
We consider the problem of distributed exploration or coverage of an unknown environment by a swarm of mobile minirobots that have limited memory, computation and communication ca...
Ke Cheng, Prithviraj Dasgupta
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
153views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Marginal contribution nets: a compact representation scheme for coalitional games
We present a new approach to representing coalitional games based on rules that describe the marginal contributions of the agents. This representation scheme captures characterist...
Samuel Ieong, Yoav Shoham
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Methods for Task Allocation via Agent Coalition Formation
Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where ...
Onn Shehory, Sarit Kraus