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Coalition formation has been addressed in multi-agent systems for a long time. Quite surprisingly, hierarchical structures, that often naturally occur in the real-world, have barely been investigated. I propose to consider organisational hierarchies of coalition structures. Both the complexity as well as suitable algorithms have to be investigated for this more general setting.
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Note that I can choose to work with any form of the game (i.e., disjoint coalitions, with overlaps, or externalities [7]) because I am only interested in the relation between coalition structures.
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Krausburg, T. (2021). Hierarchical Coalition Formation in Multi-agent Systems. In: Rodríguez González, S., et al. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions, 17th International Conference. DCAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1242. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53829-3_23
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