Publication - Challenges for Multi-Agent Coordination Theory Based on Empirical Observations

Authors: Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Daniel
Title: Challenges for Multi-Agent Coordination Theory Based on Empirical Observations
Abstract: Significant research progress and understanding about the nature of coordination has been made over the years. Development of the DCOP and DEC-MDP frameworks in the past decade has been especially important. Although these advances are very important for multi-agent coordination theory, they overlook a set of coordination behaviors and phenomena that have been observed empirically by many researchers since the early years of the field. The goal of this paper is to challenge researchers in multi-agent coordination to develop a comprehensive formal framework that explains these empirical observations.
Keywords: Cooperative Negotiation, Coordination, Distributed Problem Solving
Publication: Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1157 - 1160
Editor: Lomuscia, A.; Scerri, P.; Bazzan, A.; and Huhns, M
Location: Paris, France
Publisher: IFAAMAS
Date: 2014
Sources: PDF: /Documents/lesser/lesser_aamas14.pdf
Notes: In Challenge in Vision special track.
Reference: Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Daniel. Challenges for Multi-Agent Coordination Theory Based on Empirical Observations. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Lomuscia, A.; Scerri, P.; Bazzan, A.; and Huhns, M, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 1157-1160. 2014. In Challenge in Vision special track.
bibtex:
@inproceedings{Lesser-526,
  author    = "Victor Lesser and Daniel Corkill",
  title     = "{Challenges for Multi-Agent Coordination Theory
               Based on Empirical Observations}",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of 13th International Conference on
               Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems",
  editor    = "A. Lomuscia and P. Scerri and A. Bazzan and M Huhns",
  publisher = "IFAAMAS",
  pages     = "1157-1160",
  year      = "2014",
  address   = "Paris, France",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/526",
}