Acting while negotiating
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چکیده
In the convoy formation problem, two embodied agents are negotiating the synchronization of their movement for a portion of their respective paths from source to destinations. In this paper, we consider a setting in which the negotiation happens in physical time, thus the agents have the opportunity to perform actions, such as movement, while negotiating. In these settings, the agent’s behavior is controlled by the pair of the negotiation and action strategies. After considering the challenges of acting while negotiating for the general convoy formation problem, we propose three static and one learning based strategies for the specific case where convoys can traverse a rectangular obstacle which is unaccessible to individual agents. Through a series of experiments we study the interaction between the action and negotiation strategies and the performance advantage of learning based approaches in incomplete information scenarios.
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