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Authors: Emanuel Florentin Olariu ; Cristian Frăsinaru and Policiuc Abel Albert

Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Bd. Carol, Iaşi, Romania

Keyword(s): Coalition Structure Generation, Linear/Quadratic Programming, Column Generation, Branch and Price.

Abstract: This paper presents an integer linear programming approach for the coalition structure generation (CSG) problem over graphs. Forming such structures is a major problem in areas like artificial intelligence an multi-agent systems. The problem asks to partition a given set of agents into coalitions in order to maximize their social well-fare - the agents being vertices in a given graph and their communication links being the edges. We give a truncated branch and price algorithm using valuation functions for which this problem is proven to be computationally hard. We consider three cases: first when the value of a coalition is the sum of the weights of its edges, second when the value takes account of both inter- and intra-coalitional disagreements and agreements, respectively, and another one when the value takes account of the pairs of adjacent agents which have common neighbors outside. The experimental results cover sets of up to fifty agents. Our approach prove that an off the shel f optimization solver can be used to solve CSG problem over graphs for some of the most used valuation functions. We prove also that for the coordination valuation the corresponding decision problem is NP-complete when the number of coalitions must be two. (More)

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Olariu, E.; Frăsinaru, C. and Albert, P. (2021). A Branch and Price Algorithm for Coalition Structure Generation over Graphs. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-484-8; ISSN 2184-433X, SciTePress, pages 390-397. DOI: 10.5220/0010316303900397

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title={A Branch and Price Algorithm for Coalition Structure Generation over Graphs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART},
year={2021},
pages={390-397},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010316303900397},
isbn={978-989-758-484-8},
issn={2184-433X},
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JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART
TI - A Branch and Price Algorithm for Coalition Structure Generation over Graphs
SN - 978-989-758-484-8
IS - 2184-433X
AU - Olariu, E.
AU - Frăsinaru, C.
AU - Albert, P.
PY - 2021
SP - 390
EP - 397
DO - 10.5220/0010316303900397
PB - SciTePress

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