Weighted voting game based algorithm for joining a microscopic coalition

Author

Lau, Billy Pik Lik ; Singh, A.K. ; Tan, Terence Peng Lian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. Sarawak, Miri, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Coalition formation (CF) creates a coherent group between autonomous agents to efficiently achieve individual or collective goals. However, the idle agents are not able to maximize their utility. In this paper, the weighted voting mechanism (WVM) has been proposed that allows agents to join existing coalitions. The experiments endorsed agents´ number and the trust element as parameters to study the voting result percentage. The simulation of the WVM shows the complete voting session percentage which is a measurement of agents´ voting efficiency has been reduced to 26.4% in a society of 500 agents. Utilizing the WVM, the voting session of the coalition in deciding agents´ joining coalition request (JCR) can be reduced and increase the efficiency of the decision making.

Keywords

decision making; game theory; multi-agent systems; CF; JCR; WVM; agent joining coalition request; agent number; agent voting efficiency; autonomous agents; coalition formation; decision making; microscopic coalition; trust element; voting result percentage; voting session percentage; weighted voting game based algorithm; weighted voting mechanism; Autonomous agents; Computers; Decision making; Educational institutions; Games; Microscopy; Multi-agent systems; decision making; game theory; microscopic coalition; multi-agent systems; weighted voting mechanism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2013 - 2013 IEEE Region 10 Conference (31194)

Conference_Location

Xi´an

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2825-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2013.6718491

Filename

6718491