Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems

Part I. Effects of Scaling Coordination

1. The Effects of Locality and Asymmetry in Large-Scale Multiagent MDPs
Dmitri A Dolgov, Edmund H Durfee

2. A Study of Scalability Properties in Robotic Teams
Avi Rosenfeld, Gal A Kaminka, Sarit Kraus

3. Comparing Three Approaches to Large-Scale Coordination
Paul Scerri, Régis Vincent, Roger Mailler

Part II. Scaling Existing Coordination Approaches

4. Decentralized Partner Finding in Multi-Agent Systems
Marcelo M. Vanzin, K. S. Barber

5. Distributed Coordination of an Agent Society Based on Obligations and Commitments to Negotiated Agreements
Jiangbo Dang, Devendra Shrotri, Michael N. Huhns

6. A Family of Graphical-Game-Based Algorithms for Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems
Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Jonathan P. Pearce, Milind Tambe

7. Key-Based Coordination Strategies: Scalability Issues
Tom Wagner, John Phelps, Valerie Guralnik, Ryan VanRiper

8. Designing Agent Utilities for Coordinated, Scalable and Robust Multi-Agent Systems
Kagan Turner

Part III. New Approaches for Large Scale Coordination

9. Learning Scalable Coalition Formation in an Organizational Context
Sherief Abdallah, Victor Lesser

10. Multi-Agent Coordination in Open Environments
Myriam Abramson, Ranjeev Mittu

11. Mobile Agents
Ichiro Satoh

12. WIZER: Automated Model Improvement in Multi-Agent Social-Network Systems
Alex Yahja, Kathleen M. Carley

Part IV. Robustness and Flexibility for Large Scale Coordination

13. Handling Coordination Failures in Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
Gal A. Kaminka

14. Towards Flexible Coordination of Large Scale Multi-Agent Teams
Yang Xu, Elizabeth Liao, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Mike Lewis, Katia Sycara

15. Techniques for Robust Planning in Degradable Multiagent Systems
Ping Xuan

Nyckelord: Computer Science, Theory of Computation, Computation by Abstract Devices, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems