Title :
Strategy of agent coalition formation based on outstanding coalition
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Shijiazhuang Railway Inst., Shijiazhuang, China
Abstract :
In Multi-Agent System(MAS), agents solve tasks by coalition formed through cooperation. In this paper, combining with Chinese question answering system, the concept “outstanding coalition” is proposed based on class of question sentence. Further more, strategy of agent coalition formation based on outstanding coalition is proposed. The performance of the strategy is analyzed, and it is proved theoretically that the strategy can improve MAS´s cooperation efficiency, simplify the calculation, the coalition formed by it is of high stability.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; query processing; Chinese question answering system; agent coalition formation; multiagent system; outstanding coalition; Costs; Game theory; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Kernel; Performance analysis; Rail transportation; Railway engineering; Speech; Stability analysis; Chinese question answering system; multi-agent system; outstanding coalition; strategy of agent coalition formation;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6347-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCET.2010.5485666
