Adapting to Changing Resource Requirements for Coalition Formation in Self-Organized Social Networks

  • Authors:
  • Levi Barton;Vicki H. Allan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Coalition formation in social networks allows many choices of which task to select and with whom to partner in the social network. Agents communicate with agents within n network links in their surrounding network. These agents are considered part of an agent’s local neighborhood. Agents maintain a database of skills possessed by agents in their local neighborhood. We compare agents of two different types. Structural agents seek to create a scale-free network. Inventory agents seek to connect to agents who possess a skill not found in their current local neighborhood. We examine the ability of the agents to deal with static skill demand patterns, changing skill demand patterns, and a mismatch of the skills supplied to the skills demanded.