A DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR COALITION FORMATION IN LINEAR PRODUCTION DOMAIN

Chattrakul Sombattheera, Aditya Ghose

2006

Abstract

Coalition formation is an important area of research in multi-agent systems. The large number of agents can make coalition formation become a complex process. The problem of dealing with large number of agents during coalition formation has received little attention in the literature. Previous studies assume that each coalition value is known a priori. This assumption is impractical in realworld settings. Furthermore, the problem of finding coalition values become intractable for even a relatively small number of agents. This work studies coalition formation among fully cooperative agents in linear production domain, where each coalition value is not known a priori. The common goal of the agents is to maximize the system’s profit. We propose a distributed algorithm that allow agents to i) deliberate profitable coalitions, and ii) compute optimal coalition structure. We show that our algorithm outperforms exhaustive search when generating profitable coalitions, which can be used to achieve optimal coalition structure that yields the system’s maximal profit.

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Sombattheera C. and Ghose A. (2006). A DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR COALITION FORMATION IN LINEAR PRODUCTION DOMAIN . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-42-9, pages 17-22. DOI: 10.5220/0002445000170022


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Chattrakul Sombattheera and Aditya Ghose},
title={A DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR COALITION FORMATION IN LINEAR PRODUCTION DOMAIN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={17-22},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002445000170022},
isbn={978-972-8865-42-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR COALITION FORMATION IN LINEAR PRODUCTION DOMAIN
SN - 978-972-8865-42-9
AU - Sombattheera C.
AU - Ghose A.
PY - 2006
SP - 17
EP - 22
DO - 10.5220/0002445000170022