Authors:
Samir Aknine
1
;
Usama Mir
2
and
Luciana Bezerra Arantes
3
Affiliations:
1
Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, France
;
2
Université de Technologie de Troyes, France
;
3
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Keyword(s):
Multiagent Systems, Coalition FORMATION, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Cooperation and Coordination
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Distributed Problem Solving
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Formal Methods
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Planning and Scheduling
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This research investigates the problems of agent coordination when deployed in highly dynamic environments such as MANETs (Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks). Several difficulties arise in these infrastructures especially when the devices with limited resources are used. All the constraints of agents’ development must thus be reexamined in order to deal with such situations, especially due to the opportunistic mobility of nodes. In this paper, we thus propose a new multiagent coordination mechanism through agent coalition formation for such an environment. In order to validate it, evaluation performance tests have been conducted on an application devoted for the assistance of hospital patients and their results are also presented in the paper.