Overlapping Coalition Formation Game via Multi-Objective Optimization for Crowdsensing Task Allocation

Coalition Formation for Task Allocation via Genetic Algorithms

Methods for Task Allocation via Agent Coalition Formation

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 each task should be attached to a group of agents that will perform the task. Task allocation to groups of agents is necessary when tasks cannot be performed by a single agent. However it may also be beneficial when gr...

Task Allocation Via Coalition Formation Among Autonomous Agents

Autonomous agents working in multi-agent environments may need to cooperate in order to ful ll tasks. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where each task should be attached to a group of agents which will perform the task. The allocation of tasks to groups of agents is necessary when tasks cannot be performed by a single agent. It may also...

Multi-agent Based Execution Environment for Task Allocation via Coalition Formation

This paper focuses on a solution to the problem of task allocation through coalition formation and presents the design and implementation of a framework for this purpose. The framework serves as a multi-agent execution environment where worker agents follow the Shehory-Kraus’s coalition formation algorithm to negotiate and form coalitions. Worker agents prefer to form an optimal coalition to ma...

Parallel multi-objective multi-robot coalition formation

Consider a system with M robots each having K resource types and N tasks having a vector of Kresource types. A coalition scheme represents a grouping of a given set of robots into disjoint subsets where each subset (coalition ) is assigned one task. Thus for N tasks we have N coalition schemes, represented as CS = {C1, C2,,....CN}, In this problem we have considered the following two conflictin...