Title :
Improving plan quality through agent coalitions
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Informatics, Slovak Acad. of Sci., Bratislava
fDate :
Aug. 30 2004-Sept. 1 2004
Abstract :
Task execution in multi-agents systems might require cooperation among agents. An agent coalition is a special kind of cooperation, whose purpose is to improve the collective performance. Creating coalitions usually requires complicated negotiations among participating agents. In order to resolve this mentioned problem, we try to suggest a negotiation protocol, which is based on FIPA standards. In addition, some default strategies are proposed with the purpose to help agents in decision making, while choose coalitions. These strategies could also be combined one with others to adapt to various situations
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; open systems; protocols; FIPA standard; agent coalition; multiagent system; negotiation protocol; plan quality; task execution; Autonomous agents; Costs; Decision making; Manufacturing; Measurement units; Multiagent systems; Problem-solving; Production facilities; Protocols; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Cybernetics, 2004. ICCC 2004. Second IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8588-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCYB.2004.1437698
