From Marriages to Coalitions: A Soft CSP Approach

نویسندگان

  • Stefano Bistarelli
  • Simon N. Foley
  • Barry O'Sullivan
  • Francesco Santini
چکیده

In this work we represent the Optimal Stable Marriage problem as a Soft Constraint Satisfaction Problem. In addition, we extend this problem from couples of individuals to coalitions of generic agents, in order to define new coalition-formation principles and stability conditions. In the coalition case, we suppose the preference value as a trust score, since trust can describe a nodes belief in another nodes capabilities, honesty and reliability. Soft constraints represent a general and expressive framework that is able to deal with distinct concepts of optimality by only changing the related c-semiring structure, instead of using different ad-hoc algorithms. At last, we propose an implementation of the classical OSM problem by using Integer Linear Programming tools.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008