Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Multi-agent team formation for design problems

Electronic data

  • COIN2015Book

    Rights statement: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42691-4_20

    Accepted author manuscript, 1.33 MB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Multi-agent team formation for design problems

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

Published
Close
Publication date2016
Host publicationCoordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Normes in Agent Systems XI: COIN 2015 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS, Istanbul, Turkey, May 4, 2015, COIN@IJCAI, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 26, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsVirginia Dignum, Pablo Noriega, Murat Sensoy, Jaime Simão Sichman
PublisherSpringer
Pages354-375
Number of pages22
ISBN (electronic)9783319426914
ISBN (print)9783319426907
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume9628
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Abstract

Design imposes a novel social choice problem: using a team of voting agents, maximize the number of optimal solutions; allowing a user to then take an aesthetical choice. In an open system of design agents, team formation is fundamental. We present the first model of agent teams for design. For maximum applicability, we envision agents that are queried for a single opinion, and multiple solutions are obtained by multiple iterations. We show that diverse teams composed of agents with different preferences maximize the number of optimal solutions, while uniform teams composed of multiple copies of the best agent are in general suboptimal. Our experiments study the model in bounded time; and we also study a real system, where agents vote to design buildings.

Bibliographic note

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42691-4_20