Forming coalitions in the face of uncertain rewards
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
Coalition structure generation with worst case guarantees
Artificial Intelligence
Customer coalitions in the electronic marketplace
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Dynamic Coalition Formation among Rational Agents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
ICEC '03 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic commerce
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
A kernel-oriented model for coalition-formation in general environments: implementation and results
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Forming efficient agent groups for completing complex tasks
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agents' roles in B2C e-commerce
AI Communications
Using AI and semantic web technologies to attack process complexity in open systems
Knowledge-Based Systems
An algorithm for distributing coalitional value calculations among cooperating agents
Artificial Intelligence
Coalition structure generation with worst case guarantees based on cardinality structure
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Multi-task overlapping coalition parallel formation algorithm
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An equal excess negotiation algorithm for coalition formation
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agent clustering based on semantic negotiation
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Reaction functions for task allocation to cooperative agents
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
An improved dynamic programming algorithm for coalition structure generation
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
A best-first anytime algorithm for computing optimal coalition structures
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Methods for Coalition Formation in Adaptation-Based Social Networks
CIA '07 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XI
On representing coalitional games with externalities
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Coalition Structure Generation in Task-Based Settings
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
Optimal Coalition Structure Generation In Partition Function Games
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Simulated Annealing for Coalition Formation
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Simulated Annealing for Multi-agent Coalition Formation
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Overlapping coalition formation for efficient data fusion in multi-sensor networks
AAAI'06 Proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Distributing coalitional value calculations among cooperative agents
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Anytime optimal coalition structure generation
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
An anytime algorithm for optimal coalition structure generation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Near-optimal anytime coalition structure generation
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Coalition structure generation in multi-agent systems with positive and negative externalities
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
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
Model and application of optimal coalition structure
FSKD'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery - Volume 4
Coalition structure generation in multi-agent systems with mixed externalities
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
A distributed algorithm for anytime coalition structure generation
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Coalition formation using combined deterministic and evolutionary approach
ACIIDS'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Intelligent information and database systems: Part I
A revision algorithm for invalid encodings in concurrent formation of overlapping coalitions
Applied Soft Computing
Constant factor approximation algorithms for coalition structure generation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Forming buyer coalition with bundles of items by ant colony optimization
ICCC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computers and computing
Dynamic coalition adaptation for efficient agent-based virtual power plants
MATES'11 Proceedings of the 9th German conference on Multiagent system technologies
A distributed branch-and-bound algorithm for computing optimal coalition structures
SETN'06 Proceedings of the 4th Helenic conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
An argumentation-based model for reasoning about coalition structures
ArgMAS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
A pruning-based algorithm for computing optimal coalition structures in linear production domains
AI'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
Minimum search to establish worst-case guarantees in coalition structure generation
IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume One
Randomized coalition structure generation
Artificial Intelligence
Coalition structure generation over graphs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multiagent systems. When effective, such coalitions can improve the performance of the individual agents and/or of the system as a whole. However, one of the main problems that hinders the wide spread adoption of coalition formation technologies is the computational complexity of coalition structure generation. That is, once a group of agents has been identified, how can it be partitioned in order tomaximise the social payoff? This problem has been shown to be NP-hard and even finding a sub-optimal solution requires searching an exponential number of solutions. Against this background, this paper reports on a novel anytime algorithm for coalition structure generation that produces solutions that are within a finite bound from the optimal. Our algorithm is benchmarked against Sandholm et al.ýs algorithm [8] (the only other known algorithm for this task that can also establish a worst-case bound from the optimal) and is shown to be up to 10^379 times faster (for systems containing 1000 agents) when small bounds from the optimal are desirable.