NDLI: RoboCup Rescue as multiagent task allocation among teams: experiments with task interdependencies

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Author	Ferreira, Paulo Roberto dos Santos, Fernando Bazzan, Ana L. C. Epstein, Daniel Waskow, Samuel J.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	This paper addresses distributed task allocation among teams of agents in a RoboCup Rescue scenario. We are primarily concerned with testing different mechanisms that formalize issues underlying implicit coordination among teams of agents. These mechanisms are developed, implemented, and evaluated using two algorithms: Swarm-GAP and LA-DCOP. The latter bases task allocation on a comparison between an agent’s capability to perform a task and the capability demanded by this task. Swarm-GAP is a probabilistic approach in which an agent selects a task using a model inspired by task allocation among social insects. Both algorithms were also compared to another one that allocates tasks in a greedy way. Departing from previous works that tackle task allocation in the rescue scenario only among fire brigades, here we consider the various actors in the RoboCup Rescue, a step forward in the direction of realizing the concept of extreme teams. Tasks are allocated to teams of agents without explicit negotiation and using only local information. Our results show that the performance of Swarm-GAP and LA-DCOP are similar and that they outperform a greedy strategy. Also, it is possible to see that using more sophisticated mechanisms for task selection does pay off in terms of score.
Starting Page	421
Ending Page	443
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872532
Journal	Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737454
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-04-17
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Task allocation Multiagent systems RoboCup Rescue DCOP GAP User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Computing Methodologies Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence

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