An approximation algorithm for the generalized assignment problem
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Cooperative Multiagent Systems: A Personal View of the State of the Art
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Task Allocation in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation Domain: A Short Note
RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V
An asynchronous complete method for distributed constraint optimization
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
RoboCup Rescue: A Grand Challenge for Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Taking DCOP to the Real World: Efficient Complete Solutions for Distributed Multi-Event Scheduling
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Allocating tasks in extreme teams
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Decentralized control of cooperative systems: categorization and complexity analysis
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
A scalable method for multiagent constraint optimization
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Robocup rescue simulation competition: status report
RoboCup 2005
Towards efficient multiagent task allocation in the RoboCup Rescue: a biologically-inspired approach
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Self-organized task allocation to sequentially interdependent tasks in swarm robotics
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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This paper addresses distributed task allocation in complex scenarios modeled using the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) formalism. It is well known that DCOP, when used to model complex scenarios, generates problems with exponentially growing number of parameters. However, those scenarios are becoming ubiquitous in real-world applications. Therefore, approximate solutions are necessary. We propose and evaluate an algorithm for distributed task allocation. This algorithm, called Swarm-GAP, is based on theoretical models of division of labor in social insect colonies. It uses a probabilistic decision model. Swarm-GAP is experimented both in a scenario from RoboCup Rescue and an abstract simulation environment. We show that Swarm-GAP achieves similar results as other recent proposed algorithm with a reduction in communication and computation. Thus, our approach is highly scalable regarding both the number of agents and tasks.