Wasp nests for self-configurable factories
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Communication decisions in multi-agent cooperation: model and experiments
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Optimizing information exchange in cooperative multi-agent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An asynchronous complete method for distributed constraint optimization
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A prototype infrastructure for distributed robot-agent-person teams
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A key-based coordination algorithm for dynamic readiness and repair service coordination
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A Combinatorial Auction for Collaborative Planning
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Emergence of coordination in scale-free networks
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems Using Cooperative Mediation
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Scaling Teamwork to Very Large Teams
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Allocating tasks in extreme teams
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The communicative multiagent team decision problem: analyzing teamwork theories and models
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Incremental pruning: a simple, fast, exact method for partially observable Markov decision processes
UAI'97 Proceedings of the Thirteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
A constraint optimization framework for fractured robot teams
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Comparing market and token-based coordination
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Towards flexible coordination of human-agent teams
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Information searching and sharing in large-scale dynamic networks
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Robust coordination to sustain throughput of an unstable agent network
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Searching and sharing information in networks of heterogeneous agents
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
An integrated approach to high-level information fusion
Information Fusion
Detecting disagreements in large-scale multi-agent teams
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Analyzing the performance of randomized information sharing
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Agent organized networks redux
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Coordination to avoid starvation of bottleneck agents in a large network system
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Multiagent coordination for controlling complex and unstable manufacturing processes
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A Token-Based Mutual Exclusion Approach to Improve Collaboration in Distributed Environments
ICCCI '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
The statistical mechanics of belief sharing in multi-agent systems
Information Fusion
Design patterns for decentralised coordination in self-organising emergent systems
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Exploiting scale invariant dynamics for efficient information propagation in large teams
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
When should there be a "Me" in "Team"?: distributed multi-agent optimization under uncertainty
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Self-organisation in an agent network via multiagent Q-learning
PKAW'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Knowledge management and acquisition for smart systems and services
An investigation of the vulnerabilities of scale invariant dynamics in large teams
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Overlay networks for task allocation and coordination in large-scale networks of cooperative agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Self-organization in an agent network: A mechanism and a potential application
Decision Support Systems
Information sharing and searching via collaborative reinforcement learning
SETN'12 Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic conference on Artificial Intelligence: theories and applications
Improving Asynchronous Search for Distributed Generalized Assignment Problem
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Adjusting Organization to Improve Coordination for Large Heterogeneous Multi-agent Teams
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Large-scale cooperative task distribution on peer-to-peer networks
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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Efficient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be performed. However, state of the art coordination algorithms are not capable of achieving efficient and effective coordination when a team is very large. Building on recent successful token-based algorithms for task allocation and information sharing, we have developed an integrated and efficient approach to effective coordination of large scale teams. We use tokens to encapsulate anything that needs to be shared by the team, including information, tasks and resources. The tokens are efficiently routed through the team via the use of local decision theoretic models. Each token is used to improve the routing of other tokens leading to a dramatic performance improvement when the algorithms work together. We present results from an implementation of this approach which demonstrates its ability to coordinate large teams.