Anytime coalition structure generation in multi-agent systems with positive or negative externalities

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 186, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-122

  Rahwan, Talal ^a   Michalak, Tomasz ^a,b   Wooldridge, Michael ^c   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Approximation; Classification; Game theory; Mechanism design

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; CO-EXISTING; COALITION FORMATIONS; COALITION STRUCTURE; COALITIONAL GAME; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; ENTIRE SYSTEM; GENERAL CLASS; MECHANISM DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS; NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; SEARCH SPACES; SOLUTION QUALITY; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GAME THEORY; MACHINE DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860516799     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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