Agent Reasoning Mechanism for Long–Term Coalitions Based on Decision Making and Trust |
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| Authors: | Julita Vassileva,Silvia Breban,& Michael Horsch |
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| Affiliation: | University of Saskatchewan, Canada;, University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | long–term agent coalitions agent trust model agent decision making evaluation |
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