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2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
Solution to Agent Coalition Problem using Improved Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm
Beijing, China
September 20-September 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2101-0
Na Xia, Hefei University of Technology, China
Jianguo Jiang, Hefei University of Technology, China
Yaling Hu, Hefei University of Technology, China
As an important coordination and cooperation method in Multi-Agent System, Agent coalition mechanism has been receiving more and more attention. An efficient algorithm is needed for this topic since the number of the possible coalitions is exponential. This paper proposes an improved ant Colony Optimization Algorithm to find the optimal, task-oriented Agent coalition in Multi-Agent System. Ants incline to choose those Agents who cooperated well before to form coalitions, which realizes the acquaintance mechanism. The novel "Inner hormone" can avoid the algorithm getting in the local minimum area easily. The results of contrastive experiment show that the algorithm in this paper is robust, self-adaptive and very efficient.
Citation:
Na Xia, Jianguo Jiang, Yaling Hu, "Solution to Agent Coalition Problem using Improved Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm," iat, pp.475-478, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04), 2004
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