Modeling and Simulation of Coalition Formation

V. Mashkov, J. Barilla, P. Simr, J. Bicanek

2015

Abstract

One of the challenges of agent technologies is to provide models of team or group activities in which agents contact each other, negotiate and collaborate towards certain objectives. Such groups are related to multi-agent systems. In context of multi-agent systems, separate agents can cooperate and join together in order to execute the faced tasks in a more efficient way or in order to gain benefits. The paper deals with unselfish agents which are concerned about the system’s global outcome, without regards for personal payoff. Coalition formation is a very complex process which requires correct planning and preliminary modeling to be solved effectively. In the paper, we considered the problem of modeling the coalition formation from unselfish agents. There are several tools that allow providing and carrying out coalition formation modeling. In the paper, we showed how the Petri Nets can be used for such modeling. For the purpose of simulation of coalition formation the open access web application was developed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mashkov V., Barilla J., Simr P. and Bicanek J. (2015). Modeling and Simulation of Coalition Formation . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-120-5, pages 329-336. DOI: 10.5220/0005504203290336

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech15,
author={V. Mashkov and J. Barilla and P. Simr and J. Bicanek},
title={Modeling and Simulation of Coalition Formation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2015},
pages={329-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005504203290336},
isbn={978-989-758-120-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Modeling and Simulation of Coalition Formation
SN - 978-989-758-120-5
AU - Mashkov V.
AU - Barilla J.
AU - Simr P.
AU - Bicanek J.
PY - 2015
SP - 329
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0005504203290336