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AAAI
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Overlapping Coalition Formation for Efficient Data Fusion in Multi-Sensor Networks
This paper develops new algorithms for coalition formation within multi-sensor networks tasked with performing widearea surveillance. Specifically, we cast this application as an ...
Viet Dung Dang, Rajdeep K. Dash, Alex Rogers, Nich...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Coalitional Bargaining with Agent Type Uncertainty
Coalition formation is a problem of great interest in AI, allowing groups of autonomous, individually rational agents to form stable teams. Automating the negotiations underlying ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Craig Boutilier
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Optimal Coalition Structure Generation In Partition Function Games
1 In multi-agent systems (MAS), coalition formation is typically studied using characteristic function game (CFG) representations, where the performance of any coalition is indepen...
Tomasz P. Michalak, Andrew Dowell, Peter McBurney,...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Sequential decision making in repeated coalition formation under uncertainty
The problem of coalition formation when agents are uncertain about the types or capabilities of their potential partners is a critical one. In [3] a Bayesian reinforcement learnin...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Craig Boutilier
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Agent memory and adaptation in multi-agent systems
We describe a general mechanism for adaptation in multiagent systems in which agents modify their behavior based on their memory of past events. These behavior changes can be elic...
Kristina Lerman, Aram Galstyan
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation in Task-Based Settings
The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multi-agent system...
Viet Dung Dang, Nicholas R. Jennings
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Agent Compatibility and Coalition Formation: Investigating Two Interacting Negotiation Strategies
This paper focuses on Coalition Formation paradigm as a market mechanism. Concretely, Coalition Formation occurs as part of a wider open world and may occur many times during the l...
Carlos Mérida-Campos, Steven Willmott
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The communication complexity of coalition formation among autonomous agents
It is self-evident that in numerous Multiagent settings, selfish agents stand to benefit from cooperating by forming coalitions. Nevertheless, negotiating a stable distribution of...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Generating Coalition Structures with Finite Bound from the Optimal Guarantees
The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multiagent system...
Viet Dung Dang, Nicholas R. Jennings
CIA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Methods for Coalition Formation in Adaptation-Based Social Networks
: Coalition formation in social networks consisting of a graph of interdependent agents allows many choices of which task to select and with whom to partner in the social network. ...
Levi Barton, Vicki H. Allan