Coalition Formation under Uncertainty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288330379)

Many multiagent systems require allocation of agents to tasks in order to ensure successful task execution. Most systems that perform this allocation assume that the quantity of agents needed for a task is known beforehand. Coalition formation approaches relax this assumption, allowing multiple agents to be dynamically assigned. Unfortunately, many current approaches to coalition formation lack provisions for uncertainty. This prevents application of coalition formation techniques to complex domains, such as real-world robotic systems and agent domains where full state knowledge is not available. Those that do handle uncertainty have no ability to handle dynamic addition or removal of agents from the collective and they constrain the environment to limit the sources of uncertainty.

Author: Daylond James Hooper
ISBN-10: 1288330375
ISBN-13: 9781288330379
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2012
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.29d