• 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