@InProceedings{brooks02b,
  author =	 {Chistopher H. Brooks and Edmund H. Durfee},
  title =	 {Congregating and Market Formation},
  googleid =	 {fKrb1KXCT1QJ:scholar.google.com/},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 1st International Joint
                  Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent
                  Systems},
  pages =	 {96--103},
  year =	 2002,
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/brooks02b.pdf},
  abstract =	 {Agents in a multiagent system are not typically
                  entirely self-su cient; instead, they frequently
                  need to enlist other agents to perform tasks for
                  them or to exchange goods or services with
                  them. This creates a problem: how can an agent e
                  ciently locate other agents to work or trade with?
                  As the number of agents grows, the cost of this
                  computation can become prohibitively large. One
                  solution to this is for the system to self-organize
                  into smaller groups of agents. In this paper, we
                  apply the idea of congregating to a model of an
                  information economy. We illustrate how participants
                  in this economy can self-organize into a set of
                  markets such that agents are able to nd suitable
                  partners while retain- ing low computational
                  costs. We show how congregating can help allocation
                  problems scale to large populations by allowing
                  agents to interact locally.},
  keywords =     {multiagent learning},
  cluster = 	 {6075288439842646652}
}