Title

Multi-Agent Role Allocation: Issues, Approaches, And Multiple Perspectives

Keywords

Multi-agent systems; Role allocation; Task allocation

Abstract

In cooperative multi-agent systems, roles are used as a design concept when creating large systems, they are known to facilitate specialization of agents, and they can help to reduce interference in multi-robot domains. The types of tasks that the agents are asked to solve and the communicative capabilities of the agents significantly affect the way roles are used in cooperative multi-agent systems. Along with a discussion of these issues about roles in multi-agent systems, this article compares computational models of the role allocation problem, presents the notion of explicitly versus implicitly defined roles, gives a survey of the methods used to approach role allocation problems, and concludes with a list of open research questions related to roles in multi-agent systems. © 2010 The Author(s).

Publication Date

3-1-2011

Publication Title

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volume

22

Issue

2

Number of Pages

317-355

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-010-9127-4

Socpus ID

79751536618 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79751536618

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