Knowledge Based Approach to OOTW Coalition Formation

Abstract

The task of planning humanitarian relief operations within a high number of hardly collaborating and vaguely linked non-governmental organizations is a challenging problem. We suggest an alternative knowledge based approach to the coalition formation problem for humanitarian and peace-keeping missions. Owing to the very special nature of this domain, where the agents representing individual organisations may eventually agree to collaborate, but are very often reluctant to share their knowledge and resources, we tried to reduce the problem complexity by splitting the community of agents into alliances. We combined classical negotiation mechanisms with the acquaintance models and social knowledge techniques in order to reduce the communication traffic and to keep the privacy of knowledge. Experimental results are discussed in the paper.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADP012349

Entities

People

  • Jaroslav Barta
  • Michal Pechoucek
  • Vladimir Marik

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Clothing
  • Computational Processes
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Governments
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Materials
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Mustard Agents
  • Ontologies

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.