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Coordinating Non Cooperative Planning Agents: Complexity Results
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Adriaan ter Mors, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
Cees Witteveen, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands

Whenever independent, non-cooperative actors jointly have to solve a complex task, they need to coordinate their efforts. Typical examples of such task coordination problems are supply chain management, multi-modal transportation and patient-centered health care management. Common elements in such problems are a complex task, i.e., a set of interdependent subtasks, and a set of competitive actors. Solving a task coordination problem first of all requires solving a task allocation problem (how to assign competitive actors to the subtasks). As a result, each of the actors receives a set of subtasks to complete and needs to make a plan for this set of tasks. Due to dependencies between tasks, a plan coordination problem has to be solved (how to ensure that a joint plan can always be composed, whatever plan is chosen by the individual actors). The aim of this paper is twofold: first of all to present a general formal framework to study some computational aspects of this non-cooperative coordination problem, and secondly to establish some complexity results and to identify some of the factors that contribute to the complexity of this problem.

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Adriaan ter Mors, Cees Witteveen, "Coordinating Non Cooperative Planning Agents: Complexity Results," iat,pp.407-413, 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05), 2005
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