Coalition, cryptography, and stability: mechanisms for coalition formation in task oriented domains
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions
Artificial Intelligence
Coalitions among computationally bounded agents
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on economic principles of multi-agent systems
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
Coalition structure generation with worst case guarantees
Artificial Intelligence
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Coalition calculation in a dynamic agent environment
ICML '04 Proceedings of the twenty-first international conference on Machine learning
Modelling Coalition Formation over Time for Iterative Coalition Games
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
The Advantages of Compromising in Coalition Formation with Incomplete Information
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
The Influence of Social Dependencies on Decision-Making: Initial Investigations with a New Game
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Multi-Agent Team Re-Formation and League Ranking
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Agent-organized networks for dynamic team formation
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Trusted kernel-based coalition formation
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Team formation in agent-based computer games
Proceedings of the second Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment
Forming efficient agent groups for completing complex tasks
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
A Feasible and Practical Coalition Formation Mechanism Leveraging Compromise and Task Relationships
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Heuristics for Dealing with a Shrinking Pie in Agent Coalition Formation
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Coalition Formation: Towards Feasible Solutions
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
Local strategy learning in networked multi-agent team formation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Sequential decision making in parallel two-sided economic search
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Distributed task allocation in social networks
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Reaction functions for task allocation to cooperative agents
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Sequential decision making in repeated coalition formation under uncertainty
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 1
Autonomic communication services: a new challenge for software agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Who Works Together in Agent Coalition Formation?
CIA '07 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XI
Exploring Social Networks in Request for Proposal Dynamic Coalition Formation Problems
CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
Tag Mechanisms Evaluated for Coordination in Open Multi-Agent Systems
Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII
Team Formation Strategies in a Dynamic Large-Scale Environment
Massively Multi-Agent Technology
Adapting to Changing Resource Requirements for Coalition Formation in Self-Organized Social Networks
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Combining Job and Team Selection Heuristics
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Belief-Based Stability in Non-transferable Utility Coalition Formation
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Multi-Agent Collaboration: A Satellite Constellation Case
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on STAIRS 2008: Proceedings of the Fourth Starting AI Researchers' Symposium
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
Reaching Agreements for Coalition Formation through Derivation of Agents' Intentions
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
Coalition Formation Strategies for Self-Interested Agents
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Forming Buyer Coalitions with Bundles of Items
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
An Incremental Adaptive Organization for a Satellite Constellation
Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems
A formal model for emerging coalitions under network influence in humanitarian relief coordination
SpringSim '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference
Coalition formation in multi-agent systems based on bottlenose dolphin alliances
ACC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on American Control Conference
Agent compatibility and coalition formation: investigating two interacting negotiation strategies
TADA/AMEC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 AAMAS workshop and TADA/AMEC 2006 conference on Agent-mediated electronic commerce: automated negotiation and strategy design for electronic markets
Coalition formation: towards feasible solutions abstract of a key-note speech
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
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
Searching for agent coalition using particle swarm optimization and death penalty function
ICIC'07 Proceedings of the intelligent computing 3rd international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications
Buyer coalitions with bundles of items by using genetic algorithm
ICIC'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging intelligent computing technology and applications
Service coalitions for future internet services
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Assignment problem in requirements driven agent collaboration and its implementation
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Introducing Personality into Team Dynamics
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial 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
Static and expanding grid coverage with ant robots: Complexity results
Theoretical Computer Science
Modeling in agent oriented internetware framework
Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
Buyer coalitions on JADE platform
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part I
Verifying team formation protocols with probabilistic model checking
CLIMA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational logic in multi-agent systems
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
Computing optimal coalition structures in non-linear logistics domains
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
An argumentation-based model for reasoning about coalition structures
ArgMAS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Sequentially optimal repeated coalition formation under uncertainty
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Multiagent task allocation in social networks
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Coalition-Oriented sensing in wireless sensor networks
PRIMA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice
Forming buyer coalition scheme with connection of a coalition leader
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
Deciding roles for efficient team formation by parameter learning
KES-AMSTA'12 Proceedings of the 6th KES international conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: technologies and applications
Coalition Formation: Towards Feasible Solutions
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
Models of coalition formation among cooperative agents: The current state and prospects of research
Scientific and Technical Information Processing
Information Systems Frontiers
Efficient Complex Tasks Allocation within Agents Environment of Known Capabilities
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Towards optimal service composition upon QoS in agent cooperation
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
A decision network based framework for multiagent coalition formation
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Intelligent Decision Technologies
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Coalition formation methods allow agents to join together and are thus necessary in cases where tasks can only be performed cooperatively by groups. This is the case in the Request For Proposal (RFP) domain, where some requester business agent issues an RFP - a complex task comprised of sub-tasks - and several service provider agents need to join together to address this RFP. In such environments the value of the RFP may be common knowledge, however the costs that an agent incurs for performing a specific sub-task are unknown to other agents. Additionally, time for addressing RFPs is limited. These constraints make it hard to apply traditional coalition formation mechanisms, since those assume complete information, and time constraints are of lesser significance there.To address this problem, we have developed a protocol that enables agents to negotiate and form coalitions, and provide them with simple heuristics for choosing coalition partners. The protocol and the heuristics allow the agents to form coalitions in the face of time constraints and incomplete information. The overall payoff of agents using our heuristics is very close to an experimentally measured optimal value, as our extensive experimental evaluation shows.