Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs in MultiAgent Systems

  • Authors:
  • Edmund H. Durfee

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Selected papers from the UKMAS Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

While numerous techniques have been developed by which agents can coordinate over the allocation of scarce resources or the pursuit of interdependent goals, less is understood about how agents discover, in the first place, with whom they should worry about coordinating and about what. We have studied several strategies for making such discoveries, ranging from communicating abstract information to anticipate potential interactions ahead of time, to learning from interactions as they occur to anticipate future interactions. In this paper, we briefly summarize some of the strategies we have been investigating, and opportunities for further exploration.