The coalition structure generation problem is a natural abstraction of one of the most
important challenges in multi-agent systems: How can a number of agents divide …

Despite more than a decade of experimental work in multi-robot systems, important
theoretical aspects of multi-robot coordination mechanisms have, to date, been largely …

Agents and Multiagent Systems: Themes, Approaches, and Challenges Page 1 Agents and
Multiagent Systems: Themes, Approaches, and Challenges Michael N. Huhns* Dept of …

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 …

Automated intelligent agents inhabiting a shared environment must coordinate their
activities. Cooperation—not merely coordination—may improve the performance of the …

As the community strives towards autonomous multi-robot systems, there is a need for these
systems to autonomously form coalitions to complete assigned missions. Numerous …

In the pursuit of an efficient cooperative multi-robot system, the researcher must eventually
answer the question “how should robots communicate?”; a natural way to attack this …

Dynamic coalition formation among rational agents - Intelligent Systems, IEEE [see also IEEE
Expert] Page 1 42 1094-7167/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS C oalition …

Buyer coalitions are beneficial in e-marketplaces because they allow buyers to take
advantage of volume discounts. However, existing buyer coalition formation schemes do not …

In the usual models of cooperative game theory, the outcome of a coalition formation
process is either the grand coalition or a coalition structure that consists of disjoint coalitions …