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<article-title>Overlay Networks for Task Allocation and Coordination in Dynamic Large-scale <br/>Networks of Cooperative Agents</article-title></title-group>

<author><a href="mailto:chtheo@aegean.gr"><name>Christina Theocharopoulou</name></a></author>
<aff>Dept. of Information &amp; Communication Systems Engineering<br/> University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:jpar@aegean.gr"><name>Ioannis Partsakoulakis</name></a></author>
<aff>Dept. of Information &amp; Communication Systems Engineering<br/> University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:georgev@aegean.gr"><name>George A. Vouros</name></a></author>
<aff>Dept. of Information &amp;Evaluating a Conversation-Centered<br/> Interactive Drama Communication Systems Engineering<br/> University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:konsterg@aegean.gr"><name></name></a>Kostas Stergiou</author>
<aff>Dept. of Information &amp; Communication Systems Engineering <br/>University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece</aff>

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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>This work proposes a method for allocating temporally
interdependent tasks to homogeneous or heterogeneous
cooperative agents in dynamic large-scale networks. This method
views searching, task allocation and scheduling as an integrated
problem that has to be efficiently solved in such networks.
Solving the general problem optimally in a decentralized way is
very hard and can only be solved by a centralized method, be
approximated by means of heuristics, or by relaxations of the
original problem. Our method facilitates effective searching
through the dynamic assignment of gateway roles to agents and
the exploitation of routing indices. In combination to searching, it
exploits distributed constraint satisfaction techniques and
dynamic re-organization of agent teams to efficiently handle the
allocation of complex tasks with interdependent subtasks.</p>
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