• DocumentCode
    3102385
  • Title

    Market-Based Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent Swarms

  • Author

    Dasgupta, Prithviraj ; Hoeing, Matthew

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    18-22 Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    113
  • Lastpage
    116
  • Abstract
    We consider the problem of distributed task allocation across swarm units comprising a swarm-based system. We model task allocation as a dynamic pricing problem within a market setup. Experimental results within a simulated environment for a distributed automatic target recognition application show that the market-based task selection mechanism compares favorably with other heuristic-based task selection strategies.
  • Keywords
    multi-agent systems; pattern recognition; pricing; distributed automatic target recognition; distributed task allocation; dynamic pricing problem; market-based task selection; multi-agent swarming; Application software; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Computer science; Distributed computing; Insects; Power system modeling; Pricing; Software agents; Target recognition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Agent Technology, 2006. IAT '06. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2748-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IAT.2006.87
  • Filename
    4052906