Multi-agent role allocation: issues, approaches, and multiple perspectives

作者：Campbell Adam^*; Wu Annie S

来源：Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2011, 22(2): 317-355.

DOI：10.1007/s10458-010-9127-4

• Multi-agent systems
• Role allocation
• Task allocation

In cooperative multi-agent systems, roles are used as a design concept when creating large systems, they are known to facilitate specialization of agents, and they can help to reduce interference in multi-robot domains. The types of tasks that the agents are asked to solve and the communicative capabilities of the agents significantly affect the way roles are used in cooperative multi-agent systems. Along with a discussion of these issues about roles in multi-agent systems, this article compares computational models of the role allocation problem, presents the notion of explicitly versus implicitly defined roles, gives a survey of the methods used to approach role allocation problems, and concludes with a list of open research questions related to roles in multi-agent systems.

• 出版日期2011-3