DocumentCode
1569369
Title
Restricted alliance and coalitions formation
Author
Mashkov, Viktor
Author_Institution
Czech Tech. Univ., Prague, Czech Republic
fYear
2004
Firstpage
329
Lastpage
332
Abstract
The task of carrying out humanitarian and peacekeeping missions by a high number of hardly collaborating and vaguely linked nongovernmental organizations is a challenging problem. Collaborators, joined by a common goal, group into parties playing an active role in the mission. In the paper we have considered such groups of collaborators as alliance and coalition. On the account of the fact that some of the group members (agents) representing individual organizations may disagree to cooperate (share information and resources) with all the other agents but only with a selected number of them, we introduced the specific type of alliance called "restricted alliance". The paper focuses on the problem of coalition formation (coalition structure) with the agents of restricted alliance. The main attention is paid to the issues of agents\´ activities at the stage of coalition structuring.
Keywords
groupware; multi-agent systems; agent cooperation; coalition formation; coalition structure; coalition structuring; group members; individual organizations; restricted alliance; Intelligent agent;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004). Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2101-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IAT.2004.1342963
Filename
1342963
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