REGION-BASED HEURISTICS FOR AN ITERATIVE PARTITIONING PROBLEM IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS

Thomas Kemmerich, Hans Kleine Büning

2011

Abstract

Load balancing or access point selection in wireless networks both are problems where a large set of particles repeatedly has to be partitioned on another set of objects. In general this partitioning problem involves multiple contrary objectives. Due to the large number of particles a decentralized approach should be favored. In this work, such an iterative multi-objective optimization problem is modeled as multiagent system. We propose a local solution technique based on regions and some special coordination media. Agents select target objects based on the region they are in. Different region types are considered and a local heuristic is developed. We show the general potential of regions and experimentally analyze different approaches. All approaches are able to provide high quality solutions.

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Kemmerich T. and Kleine Büning H. (2011). REGION-BASED HEURISTICS FOR AN ITERATIVE PARTITIONING PROBLEM IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-41-6, pages 200-205. DOI: 10.5220/0003151202000205


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart11,
author={Thomas Kemmerich and Hans Kleine Büning},
title={REGION-BASED HEURISTICS FOR AN ITERATIVE PARTITIONING PROBLEM IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={200-205},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003151202000205},
isbn={978-989-8425-41-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - REGION-BASED HEURISTICS FOR AN ITERATIVE PARTITIONING PROBLEM IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8425-41-6
AU - Kemmerich T.
AU - Kleine Büning H.
PY - 2011
SP - 200
EP - 205
DO - 10.5220/0003151202000205