MULTIAGENT COORDINATION IN AD-HOC NETWORKS BASED ON COALITION FORMATION

Samir Aknine, Usama Mir, Luciana Bezerra Arantes

2010

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.

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Aknine S., Mir U. and Bezerra Arantes L. (2010). MULTIAGENT COORDINATION IN AD-HOC NETWORKS BASED ON COALITION FORMATION . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4, pages 241-246. DOI: 10.5220/0002715902410246


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={Samir Aknine and Usama Mir and Luciana Bezerra Arantes},
title={MULTIAGENT COORDINATION IN AD-HOC NETWORKS BASED ON COALITION FORMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={241-246},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002715902410246},
isbn={978-989-674-021-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - MULTIAGENT COORDINATION IN AD-HOC NETWORKS BASED ON COALITION FORMATION
SN - 978-989-674-021-4
AU - Aknine S.
AU - Mir U.
AU - Bezerra Arantes L.
PY - 2010
SP - 241
EP - 246
DO - 10.5220/0002715902410246