A stable and efficient buyer coalition formation scheme for e-marketplaces
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Cognitive radio for flexible mobile multimedia communications
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOMUC '99)
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Customer Coalitions in Electronic Markets
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III, Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems (includes revised papers from AMEC 2000 Workshop)
Coalition Formation for Large-Scale Electronic Markets
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Utilization and fairness in spectrum assignment for opportunistic spectrum access
Mobile Networks and Applications
NeXt generation/dynamic spectrum access/cognitive radio wireless networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A stackelberg game for power control and channel allocation in cognitive radio networks
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Performance evaluation methodologies and tools
Learning to share: narrowband-friendly wideband networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
Multi-goal economic search using dynamic search structures
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Non-cooperative spectrum access: the dedicated vs. free spectrum choice
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: requirements, challenges and design trade-offs
IEEE Communications Magazine
Spectrum sensing: A distributed approach for cognitive terminals
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
What and how much to gain by spectrum agility?
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Join Me with the Weakest Partner, Please
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Sequential multi-agent exploration for a common goal
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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Motivated by applications in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, we focus on a system in which a few agents are engaged in a costly individual search where each agent's benefit is determined according to the minimum obtained value. Such a search pattern is applicable to many systems, including shipment and travel planning. This paper formally introduces and analyzes a sequential variant of the general model. According to that variant, only a single agent searches at any given time, and when an agent initiates its search, it has complete information about the minimum value obtained by the other agents so far. We prove that the search strategy of each agent, according to the equilibrium of the resulting Stackelberg game, is reservation-value based, and show how the reservation values can be calculated. We also analyze the agents' optimal search strategies when they are fully cooperative (i.e., when they aim to maximize the expected joint benefit). The equilibrium strategies and the expected benefit of each agent are illustrated using a synthetic homogeneous environment, thereby demonstrating the properties of this new search scheme and the benefits of cooperation.