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An efficient vector-based representation for coalitional games

An efficient vector-based representation for coalitional games
An efficient vector-based representation for coalitional games
We propose a new representation for coalitional games, called the coalitional skill vector model, where there is a set of skills in the system, and each agent has a skill vector--a vector consisting of values that reflect the agents' level in different skills. Furthermore, there is a set of goals, each with requirements expressed in terms of the minimum skill level necessary to achieve the goal. Agents can form coalitions to aggregate their skills, and achieve goals otherwise unachievable. We show that this representation is fully expressive, that is, it can represent any characteristic function game. We also show that, for some interesting classes of games, our representation is significantly more compact than the classical representation, and facilitates the development of efficient algorithms to solve the coalition structure generation problem, as well as the problem of computing the core and/or the least core. We also demonstrate that by using the coalitional skill vector representation, our solver can handle up to 500 agents.
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Tran-Thanh, Long
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Rogers, Alex
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Tran-Thanh, Long, Nguyen, Tri-Dung, Rahwan, Talal, Rogers, Alex and Jennings, N. R. (2013) An efficient vector-based representation for coalitional games. IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 383-389 .

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We propose a new representation for coalitional games, called the coalitional skill vector model, where there is a set of skills in the system, and each agent has a skill vector--a vector consisting of values that reflect the agents' level in different skills. Furthermore, there is a set of goals, each with requirements expressed in terms of the minimum skill level necessary to achieve the goal. Agents can form coalitions to aggregate their skills, and achieve goals otherwise unachievable. We show that this representation is fully expressive, that is, it can represent any characteristic function game. We also show that, for some interesting classes of games, our representation is significantly more compact than the classical representation, and facilitates the development of efficient algorithms to solve the coalition structure generation problem, as well as the problem of computing the core and/or the least core. We also demonstrate that by using the coalitional skill vector representation, our solver can handle up to 500 agents.

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Published date: 2013
Venue - Dates: IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013-01-01
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 351024
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/351024
ISBN: 978-1-57735-633-2
PURE UUID: 2eae5186-2c98-4e18-85ca-3a489a20e922
ORCID for Long Tran-Thanh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-8316
ORCID for Tri-Dung Nguyen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-9099

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:37

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Author: Long Tran-Thanh ORCID iD
Author: Tri-Dung Nguyen ORCID iD
Author: Talal Rahwan
Author: Alex Rogers
Author: N. R. Jennings

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