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Agent teams for design problems

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Publication date4/05/2015
Host publication19th International Workshop on Coordination, Organisations, Institutions and Norms (COIN 2015)
EditorsPablo Noriega, Murat Sensoy
PublisherAAMAS
Pages189-204
Number of pages16
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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