Multiagent negotiation under time constraints
Artificial Intelligence
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
A kernel-oriented model for coalition-formation in general environments: implementation and results
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Two mechanisms for distributed problem solving
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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Elastic nets (EN) have been effectively used in the traveling salesman problem (TSP), the prediction problem of protein structure, and so on. Nevertheless the limitations of the EN theory and its architecture seriously prevent the EN approach from the application for problem-solving of multi-agent systems (MAS) and computer networks (CN). This paper presents a crossbar composite spring-nets (CCSN) approach to MAS and CN, which transforms the optimization problem of MAS and CN into the evolutionary dynamics of crossbar composite spring nets. The CCSN approach is essentially different from EN and has many advantages over EN in terms of the problem-solving performance and the suitability for complex environment in MAS and CN.