RULE BASED STABILITY CRITERIA FOR COALITION FORMATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY

Chi-Kong Chan, Ho-Fung Leung

2007

Abstract

Efficiency and stability are two important concepts in coalition formation analysis. One common assumption in many well-known criteria such as the core and Pareto- efficiency is that there exists a publicly known value for each coalition or sub-coalition. However, in software agent applications, this assumption is often not true as the agents rarely know the exact coalition values for certain. Instead, agents have to rely on whatever evidence they can observe, and evaluate those evidence according to their private information base on past experience. There are two sources of uncertainty here. First, such private information is often uncertain in nature or may even be self-conflicting. Second, the agents, which are heterogeneous and autonomous, may have different conflict resolution strategies. Such uncertainties make the traditional approaches unfit for many real-world problems, except perhaps, in idealized scenarios. In this paper, we extend the core and Pareto optimality criteria by proposing a new rule based stability concepts under uncertain environment: the CU-Core.

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Chan C. and Leung H. (2007). RULE BASED STABILITY CRITERIA FOR COALITION FORMATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-89-4, pages 171-177. DOI: 10.5220/0002397401710177


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Chi-Kong Chan and Ho-Fung Leung},
title={RULE BASED STABILITY CRITERIA FOR COALITION FORMATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={171-177},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002397401710177},
isbn={978-972-8865-89-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - RULE BASED STABILITY CRITERIA FOR COALITION FORMATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY
SN - 978-972-8865-89-4
AU - Chan C.
AU - Leung H.
PY - 2007
SP - 171
EP - 177
DO - 10.5220/0002397401710177