Multi-agent role allocation: issues, approaches, and multiple perspectives (2011)
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@MISC{Campbell11multi-agentrole,
author = {Adam Campbell and Annie S. Wu},
title = { Multi-agent role allocation: issues, approaches, and multiple perspectives},
year = {2011}
}
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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.
