The algorithm design manual
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
Computationally Manageable Combinational Auctions
Management Science
Coalition structure generation with worst case guarantees
Artificial Intelligence
Generating Coalition Structures with Finite Bound from the Optimal Guarantees
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Overlapping coalition formation for efficient data fusion in multi-sensor networks
AAAI'06 Proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Distributing coalitional value calculations among cooperative agents
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Coalition game-based distributed coverage of unknown environments by robot swarms
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
A best-first anytime algorithm for computing optimal coalition structures
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Coalition Structure Generation in Task-Based Settings Based on Cardinality Structure
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
Optimal Coalition Structure Generation In Partition Function Games
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Coalition Formation Strategies for Self-Interested Agents
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
An Incremental Adaptive Organization for a Satellite Constellation
Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems
Anytime optimal coalition structure generation
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Coalition structure generation: dynamic programming meets anytime optimization
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
An anytime algorithm for optimal coalition structure generation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Coalitional affinity games and the stability gap
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
An anytime coalition restructuring algorithm in an open environment
ICIC'07 Proceedings of the intelligent computing 3rd international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications
Model and application of optimal coalition structure
FSKD'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery - Volume 4
Coalition structure generation in multi-agent systems with mixed externalities
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Computational Aspects of Extending the Shapley Value to Coalitional Games with Externalities
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
A Network Flow Approach to Coalitional Games
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Constant factor approximation algorithms for coalition structure generation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Forming buyer coalition with bundles of items by ant colony optimization
ICCC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computers and computing
A Plan Based Coalition Formation Model for Multi-agent Systems
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
From supply chain formation to multi-agent coordination
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Sharing rewards in cooperative connectivity games
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Coalition formation based on marginal contributions and the Markov process
Decision Support Systems
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Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is the problem of determining the best set of agents that should participate in a given team. To this end, in this paper, we present a novel, anytime algorithm for coalition structure generation that is faster than previous anytime algorithms designed for this purpose. Our algorithm can generate solutions that either have a tight bound from the optimal or are optimal (depending on the objective) and works by partitioning the space in terms of a small set of elements that represent structures which contain coalitions of particular sizes. It then performs an online heuristic search that prunes the space and only considers valid and non-redundant coalition structures. We empirically show that we are able to find solutions that are, in the worst case, 99% efficient in 0.0043% of the time to find the optimal value by the state of the art dynamic programming (DP) algorithm (for 20 agents), using 66% less memory.