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Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs in MultiAgent Systems

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While numerous techniques have been developed by which agents can coordinate over the allocation of scarce resources or the pursuit of interdependent goals, less is understood about how agents discover, in the first place, with whom they should worry about coordinating and about what. We have studied several strategies for making such discoveries, ranging from communicating abstract information to anticipate potential interactions ahead of time, to learning from interactions as they occur to anticipate future interactions. In this paper, we briefly summarize some of the strategies we have been investigating, and opportunities for further exploration.

This article was originally published in the DoD Software Tech News, Volume 5, Number 1, www.dacs.dtic.mil

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering Division, EECS Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Edmund H. Durfee

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  1. Cavendish School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, 9-18 Euston Centre, London, NW1 3ET, UK

    Mark d’Inverno

  2. Department of Computer Science, Southampton University, Southampton, S017 1BJ, UK

    Michael Luck

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    Michael Fisher

  4. Hewlett-Packard laboratories Bristol, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS12 6QZ, UK

    Chris Preist

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Durfee, E.H. (2002). Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs in MultiAgent Systems. In: d’Inverno, M., Luck, M., Fisher, M., Preist, C. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45634-1_2

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