Coalition Structure Generation in Multi-Agent Systems With Positive and Negative Externalities
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Author(s)
Rahwan, Talal
Michalak, Tomasz
Jennings, Nicholas
Wooldridge, Michael
McBurney, Peter
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Coalition structure generation has received considerable attention in recent research. Several algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem in Characteristic Function Games (CFGs), where every coalition is assumed to perform equally well in any coalition structure containing it. In contrast, very little attention has been given to the more general Partition Function Games (PFGs), where a coalition?s effectiveness may change from one coalition structure to another. In this paper, we deal with PFGs with positive and negative externalities. In this context, we identify the minimum search that is required in order to establish a bound on the quality of the best coalition structure found. We then develop an anytime algorithm that improves this bound with further search, and show that it outperforms the existing state-of-the-art algorithms by orders of magnitude.
Date Issued
2009-05
Citation
2009, pp.257-263
Start Page
257
End Page
263
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/267285/
Source
The 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Computer Science
Notes
keywords: Coalition Formation, Multi-Agent Systems, Combinatorial Optimization
Publication Status
Unpublished