@inproceedings{sims03a,
  author =	 {Mark Sims and Claudia V. Goldman and Victor Lesser},
  title =	 {Self-organization through bottom-up coalition
                  formation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the second international joint
                  conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent
                  systems},
  year =	 2003,
  pages =	 {867--874},
  location =	 {Melbourne, Australia},
  doi =		 {10.1145/860575.860715},
  publisher =	 {ACM Press},
  abstract =	 {We present a distributed approach to
                  self-organization in a distributed sensor
                  network. The agents in the system use a series of
                  negotiations incrementally to form appropriate
                  coalitions of sensor and processing resources. Since
                  the system is cooperative, we have developed a range
                  of protocols that allow the agents to share
                  meta-level information before they allocate
                  resources. On one extreme the protocols are based on
                  local utility computations, where each agent
                  negotiates based on its local perspective. From
                  there, a continuum of additional protocols exists in
                  which agents base decisions on marginal social
                  utility, the combination of an agent s marginal
                  utility and that of others. We present a formal
                  framework that allows us to quantify how social an
                  agent can be in terms of the set of agents that are
                  considered and how the choice of a certain level a},
  keywords =     {multiagent coalitions},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/sims03a.pdf},
  comment =	 {masrg},
  googleid = 	 {Tph9SAawVr8J:scholar.google.com/},
  cluster = 	 {13787400850273835086}
}