Collaborative task allocation of heterogeneous multi-unmanned platform based on a hybrid improved contract net algorithm

M Zhao, D Li - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On the basis of investigating dynamic collaborative task allocation of heterogeneous multi-
unmanned platform, a dynamic collaborative task allocation model was constructed to settle …

Performance variation due to interference among a large number of self-interested agents

T Sugawara, T Hirotsu, S Kurihara… - 2007 IEEE Congress …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance features of a massively multiagent system (MMAS) when applying the
contract net protocol (CNP) are examined. The recent growth in the volume of e-commerce …

Adaptive switching behavioral strategies for effective team formation in changing environments

M Hayano, Y Miyashita, T Sugawara - … 2016, Rome, Italy, February 24-26 …, 2017 - Springer
This paper proposes a control method for in agents by switching their behavioral strategy
between rationality and reciprocity depending on their internal states to achieve efficient …

Adapting to changing resource requirements for coalition formation in self-organized social networks

L Barton, VH Allan - … on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coalition formation in social networks allows many choices of which task to select and with
whom to partner in the social network. Agents communicate with agents within n network …

An adaptive strategy for allocation of resources with gradually or abruptly changing capacities

Y She, H Leung - 2008 20th IEEE International Conference on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In some resource allocation problems, the capacities of resources may change gradually or
abruptly. We study a class of such resource allocation problems in this paper. The system …

Automated assembly of Internet-scale software systems involving autonomous agents

W Jiao, Y Sun, H Mei - Journal of Systems and Software, 2010 - Elsevier
On the Internet, there is a great amount of distributed software entities deployed
independently and behaving autonomously. This paper describes an automated approach …

Controling contract net protocol by local observation for large-scale multi-agent systems

T Sugawara, T Hirotsu, S Kurihara… - … Information Agents XII …, 2008 - Springer
We describe a new adaptive manager-side control policy for the contract net protocol that
uses the capabilities of all agents in a massively multi-agent system (MMAS). Recent …

Multi-agent systems performance by adaptive/non-adaptive agent selection

T Sugawara, K Fukuda, T Hirotsu… - 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our research interest lies in studying how local strategies about partner agent selection
using reinforcement learning with variable exploitation-versus-exploration parameters …

Adaptive manager-side control policy in contract net protocol for massively multi-agent systems

T Sugawara, S Kurihara, T Hirotsu… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
We describe a new adaptive manager-side control policy for the contract net protocol for a
massively multi-agent system (MMAS). To improve overall performance of MMAS, tasks must …

Adaptive agent selection in large-scale multi-agent systems

T Sugawara, K Fukuda, T Hirotsu, S Sato… - PRICAI 2006: Trends in …, 2006 - Springer
An agent in a multi-agent system (MAS) has to select appropriate agents to assign tasks.
Unfortunately no agent in an open environment can identify the states of all agents, so this …