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Incremental DCOP Search Algorithms for Solving Dynamic DCOP Problems
AAMAS 2011: Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: May 2-6, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan
  • William YEOH, New Mexico State University
  • Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, Singapore Management University
  • Xiaoxun SUN, Google Inc
  • Sven KOENIG, University of Southern California
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
5-2011
Abstract

Distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs) are well-suited for modeling multi-agent coordination problems. However, most research has focused on developing algorithms for solving static DCOPs. In this paper, we model dynamic DCOPs as sequences of (static) DCOPs with changes from one DCOP to the next one in the sequence. We introduce the ReuseBounds procedure, which can be used by any-space ADOPT and any-space BnB-ADOPT to find cost-minimal solutions for all DCOPs in the sequence faster than by solving each DCOP individually. This procedure allows those agents that are guaranteed to remain unaffected by a change to reuse their lower and upper bounds from the previous DCOP when solving the next one in the sequence. Our experimental results show that the speedup gained from this procedure increases with the amount of memory the agents have available.

ISBN
9780982657171
Publisher
IFAAMAS
City or Country
Richland, SC
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2034422
Citation Information
William YEOH, Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, Xiaoxun SUN and Sven KOENIG. "Incremental DCOP Search Algorithms for Solving Dynamic DCOP Problems" AAMAS 2011: Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: May 2-6, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan (2011) p. 1069 - 1070
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/xiaoxun_sun/1/