This paper surveys the literature over the last decades in the field of self-organizing
multiagent systems. Self-organization has been extensively studied and applied in …

Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and
selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agent-mediated …

Michael L. Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 1 Scheduling Michael L.
Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 2 Scheduling Page 3 Michael L …

Multiagent systems combine multiple autonomous entities, each having diverging interests
or different information. This overview of the field offers a computer science perspective, but …

This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and …

Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given
a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where …

Agent-based systems technology has generated lots of excitement in recent years because
of its promise as a new paradigm for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing software …

Market-based multirobot coordination approaches have received significant attention and
are growing in popularity within the robotics research community. They have been …

The key to utilizing the potential of multirobot systems is cooperation. How can we achieve
cooperation in systems composed of failure-prone autonomous robots operating in noisy …

Coalition formation is a key topic in multiagent systems. One may prefer a coalition structure
that maximizes the sum of the values of the coalitions, but often the number of coalition …