The power of sequential single-item auctions for agent coordinationThe power of sequential single-item auctions for agent coordination Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2015-11-132006enTeams of robots are more fault tolerant than single robots, and auctions appear to be promising means for coordinating them. In a recent paper at “Robotics: Science and Systems 2005,” we analyzed a coordination system based on sequential single-item auctions. We showed that the coordination system is simple to implement and computation and communication efficient, and that the resulting sum of all travel distances in known terrain is guaranteed to be only a constant factor away from optimum. In this paper, we put these results in perspective by comparing our coordination system against those based on either parallel single-item auctions or combinatorial auctions, demonstrating that it combines the advantages of bothhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1625–162921st National Conference on Artificial IntelligenceProceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Boston, MA, July 2006 Koenig, S. Tovey, C. Lagoudakis Michael Λαγουδακης Μιχαηλ Markakis, V. Kempee, D. Keskinocak, Pınar Kleyweg, A. Meyerson,A. Jain, S. Robot control robots control systems robot control