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2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
Organization-Based Cooperative Coalition Formation
Beijing, China
September 20-September 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2101-0
Sherief Abdallah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The coalition formation problem has received a consierable 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.
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Sherief Abdallah, Victor Lesser, "Organization-Based Cooperative Coalition Formation," iat, pp.162-168, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04), 2004
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