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Book Chapter
Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking
Book Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN
0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
Volume
Volume 2172/2001
Book
Cooperative Information Systems
DOI
10.1007/3-540-44751-2
Copyright
2001
ISBN
978-3-540-42524-3
DOI
10.1007/3-540-44751-2_7
Pages
67-79
Subject Collection
Computer Science
SpringerLink Date
Monday, January 01, 2001
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Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking
Elth Ogston
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and Stamatis Vassiliadis
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Computer Engineering Laboratory, ITS, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Abstract
This paper explores through simulation an abstract model of distributed matchmaking within multi-agent systems. We show that under certain conditions agents can find matches for cooperative tasks without the help of a predefined organization or central facilitator. We achieve this by having each agent search for partners among a small changing set of neighbors. We work with a system where agents look for any one of a number of identical task matches, and where the number of categories of tasks can be as large as 100. Agents dynamically form clusters 10 to 100 agents in size within which agents cooperate by exchanging addresses of non-matching neighbors. We find that control of these clusters cannot be easily distributed, but that distribution in the system as a whole can be maintained by limiting cluster size. We further show that in a dynamic system where tasks end and clusters change matchmaking can continue indefinitely organizing into new sets of clusters, as long as some agents are willing to be flexible and abandon tasks they cannot find matches for. We show that in this case unmatched tasks can have a probability as low as.00005 of being changed per turn.
Elth
Ogston
Email:
elth@ce.et.tudelft.nl
Stamatis
Vassiliadis
Email:
stamatics@ce.et.tudelft.nl
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