Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
Automated strategy searches in an electronic goods market: learning and complex price schedules
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Price wars and niche discovery in an information economy
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Algorithm for optimal winner determination in combinatorial auctions
Artificial Intelligence
The Dynamics of the UMDL Service Market Society
CIA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents II, Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet
Congregation Formation in Multiagent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An Introduction to Congregating in Multiagent Systems
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
Coalition formation through motivation and trust
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Trust-Based Community Formation in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks
WI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Some agent theory for the semantic web
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Agents' roles in B2C e-commerce
AI Communications
Service discovery and composition in body area networks
BodyNets '08 Proceedings of the ICST 3rd international conference on Body area networks
Optimising decentralised grid markets through group selection
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
A group selection pattern optimizing job scheduling in decentralized grid markets
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
A group selection pattern for agent-based virtual organizations coordination in grids
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Organizational structures supported by agent-oriented methodologies
Journal of Systems and Software
Human-agent teamwork in dynamic environments
Computers in Human Behavior
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Agents in a multiagent system are not typically entirely self-sufficient; instead, they frequently need to enlist other agents to perform tasks for them or to exchange goods or services with them. This creates a problem: how can an agent efficiently locate other agents to work or trade with? As the number of agents grows, the cost of this computation can become prohibitively large. One solution to this is for the system to self-organize into smaller groups of agents. In this paper, we apply the idea of congregating to a model of an information economy. We illustrate how participants in this economy can self-organize into a set of markets such that agents are able to find suitable partners while retaining low computational costs. We show how congregating can help allocation problems scale to large populations by allowing agents to interact locally.