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Agent Reasoning Mechanism for Long–Term Coalitions Based on Decision Making and Trust
Author(s) -
Vassileva Julita,
Breban Silvia,
Horsch Michael
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8640.t01-1-00205
Subject(s) - mechanism (biology) , term (time) , vendor , computer science , state (computer science) , operations research , artificial intelligence , microeconomics , business , economics , marketing , algorithm , mathematics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , philosophy , physics
We address long–term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents. We present a coalition formation mechanism designed at the agent level as a decision problem. The proposed mechanism is analyzed at both system and agent levels. Our results show that the coalition formation mechanism is beneficial for both the system—it reaches an equilibrium state—and for the agents—their gains highly increase over time.