Introduction to operations research, 4th ed.
Introduction to operations research, 4th ed.
Coalition formation with uncertain heterogeneous information
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Coalition Formation: Towards Feasible Solutions
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
Near-optimal anytime coalition structure generation
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
Coalition Formation Strategies for Self-Interested Agents in Hedonic Games
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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This article addresses the coalition formation problem in a multi-agent context where agents plan their activities dynamically and use these plans to coordinate their actions and form suitable coalitions. In most coalition formation methods, when negotiating their coalitions the agents focus mainly on the immediate tasks to be executed, in order to decide which coalitions to form. Agents relegate the negotiations of the coalitions for their subsequent tasks to later stages of the coordination process. This paper deals with this issue and proposes a new coalition formation model which is based on two principles:1) it uses the plans of the agents to guide the search for the coalitions to be formed and shows the significance of not only taking into account the immediate actions of the agents in the coalition formation process, 2) it analyzes the coalition proposals already suggested by other agents in order to derive their intentions and thus facilitate the negotiations fort he coalitions. First we analyse and develop the constraints that should be enforced on self-interested agents, in order to form suitable coalitions which guarantee significant solution concepts. Then we detail our coalition formation mechanism.