A COP Model for Graph-Constrained Coalition Formation (Extended Abstract)

A COP Model for Graph-Constrained Coalition Formation (Extended Abstract)

Filippo Bistaffa, Alessandro Farinelli

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Journal track. Pages 5553-5557. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/783

We focus on Graph-Constrained Coalition Formation (GCCF), a widely studied subproblem of coalition formation where the set of valid coalitions is constrained by a graph. We propose COP-GCCF, a novel approach that models GCCF as a COP. We then solve such COP with a highly-parallel GPU implementation of Bucket Elimination, which is able to exploit the high constraint tightness of COP-GCCF. Results on realistic graphs, i.e., a crawl of the Twitter social graph, show that our approach outperforms state of the art algorithms (i.e., DyCE and IDP G ) by at least one order of magnitude, both in terms of runtime and memory.
Keywords:
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Coordination and Cooperation
Constraints and SAT: Constraint Optimisation