Strategy of agent coalition formation based on positive feedback of ant colony
Zhaopin Su · Sciencepaper Online · 2009
Coalition formation is a key problem in multi-agent systems. Due to the constraint of system’s computation resource, a coalition formation strategy is needed to resolve the computational bottleneck and information congestion. Based on the positive feedback mechanism of Ant Colony Algorithm, this paper adopts familiarity to describe the interrelation between agents and proposes a new coalition formation strategy with positive feedback characteristic. The simulation experiment results show this proposed strategy can reduce the communication costs and resource consumption of the whole system and enhance its reliability.