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Influence of Group Characteristics on Agent Voting

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Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2017)

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A collective of identical agents in a multi-agent system often works together towards the common goal. In situations where no supervisor agents are present to make decisions for the group, these agents must achieve some consensus via negotiations and other types of communications. We have previously shown that the structure of the group and the priority of communication has a high influence on the group decision if consensus theory methods are used. In this paper, we explore the influence of preferential communication channels in asynchronous group communication in situations, where majority vote and dominant value are used. We also show how this relates to consensus approach in such groups and how to use a combination of both approaches to improve performance of real-life multi-agent systems.

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This research was co-financed by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Marcin Maleszka

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  1. Wrocław University of Science and Technology , Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , Nomi, Japan

    Satoshi Tojo

  3. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , Nomi, Japan

    Le Minh Nguyen

  4. Wrocław University of Science and Technology , Wrocław, Poland

    Bogdan Trawiński

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Maleszka, M. (2017). Influence of Group Characteristics on Agent Voting. In: Nguyen, N., Tojo, S., Nguyen, L., Trawiński, B. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10191. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54472-4_6

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