Publication - Organization-Based Coalition Formation

Authors: Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor
Title: Organization-Based Coalition Formation
Abstract: The coalition formation problem has received a considerable amount of attention in recent years. In this work we present a novel distributed algorithm that returns a solution in polynomial time and the quality of the returned solution increases as agents gain more experience. Our solution utilizes an underlying organization to guide the coalition formation process. We use reinforcement learning techniques to optimize decisions made locally by agents in the organization. Experimental results are presented, showing the potential of our approach.
Publication: Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , Vol: 3, pp. 1296 - 1297
Publisher: (AAMAS‘04)
Date: 2004
Sources: PDF: /Documents/20921296.pdf
Notes: Extended Abstract.
Reference: Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Organization-Based Coalition Formation. Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , Volume 3, (AAMAS‘04), pp. 1296-1297. 2004. Extended Abstract.
bibtex: 
@inproceedings{Abdallah-461,
  author    = "Sherief Abdallah and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Organization-Based Coalition Formation}",
  booktitle = "Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous
               Agents and Multiagent Systems ",
  volume    = "3",
  publisher = "(AAMAS‘04)",
  pages     = "1296-1297",
  year      = "2004",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/461",
}