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Model of Cooperation in Multi-agent Systems with Fuzzy Coalitions

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From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001)

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Agent-based computing is a new paradigm to build complex distributed computer systems. The article explores one of the key issues of agent-based computing — the problem of interactions in multi-agent systems (MAS) in dynamic organizational context. Particularly, the article describes an approach to the problem of coalition forming based on fuzzy coalition games with associated core, as well as fuzzy linear programming and genetic algorithms for the game solution search. The proposed approach enables coalition forming based on the fuzzy game theory and permits to change the way of MAS programming from the predefined ad-hoc architectures to dynamic flexible and agile systems with dynamic configurations developed on-line by the MAS itself. The proposed model is applied for the coalition forming for management of supply chain networks.

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  1. Center for Computing Research of the National Technical University, (CIC-IPN), Mexico

    José C. Romero Cortés & Leonid B. Sheremetov

  2. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México

    José C. Romero Cortés

  3. St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), Russia

    Leonid B. Sheremetov

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, ul. Banacha 2, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Barbara Dunin-Keplicz

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Mining and Metallurgy, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Edward Nawarecki

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Cortés, J.C.R., Sheremetov, L.B. (2002). Model of Cooperation in Multi-agent Systems with Fuzzy Coalitions. In: Dunin-Keplicz, B., Nawarecki, E. (eds) From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. CEEMAS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2296. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45941-3_28

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