State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System,Harbin Institute of Technology,Harbin 150080 Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration of State Education Ministry,School of Computer Science and Engineering,Southeast University,Nanjing 211189
Abstract Large scale multiagent systems are always organized in networked structures where each agent interacts only with its immediate neighbors. Moreover, the networked multiagent systems always run on certain underlying physical networks. Obviously, the traditional task allocation methods based on agent self-owned resources are not fit for the networked multiagent systems. Aiming at this problem, three task allocation methods are reviewed for networked multiagent systems: the task allocation method based on underlying networks and agent resources, the task allocation method based on multiagent interaction networks and agent resources and the task allocation method based on contextual resource distribution. It considers both the underlying networks and multiagent interaction networks. Besides, the related works on centralized and distributed task allocations are reviewed, and the related works are compared to the proposed task allocation methods. Finally, the difficulties and the further work on the task allocation of networked multiagent systems are discussed.
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