Adapting to Changing Resource Requirements for Coalition Formation in Self-Organized Social Networks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Barton, Levi; Allan, Vicki H.
- Source
- 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on. 2:282-285 Dec, 2008
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Social network services
Resource management
Switches
Databases
Intelligent agent
Multiagent systems
Autonomous agents
Agents
Social Network
Coordination and Collaboration
Swarm Intelligence
Emergent Behavior
- Language
Coalition formation in social networks allows many choices of which task to select and with whom to partner in the social network. Agents communicate with agents within n network links in their surrounding network. These agents are considered part of an agent’s local neighborhood. Agents maintain a database of skills possessed by agents in their local neighborhood. We compare agents of two different types. Structural agents seek to create a scale-free network. Inventory agents seek to connect to agents who possess a skill not found in their current local neighborhood. We examine the ability of the agents to deal with static skill demand patterns, changing skill demand patterns, and a mismatch of the skills supplied to the skills demanded.