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<article-title>Sequential Resource Allocation in Multi-agent Systems with Uncertainties</article-title></title-group>

<author><a href="mailto:jianhuiw@umich.edu"><name>Jianhui Wu</name></a></author>
<aff>EECS Department, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA</aff>

<author><a href="mailto:durfee@umich.edu"><name>Edmund H. Durfee</name></a></author>
<aff>EECS Department, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA</aff>
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<p>Exchanging scarce resources during execution among a group
of agents is one way to improve the overall performance in
multi-agent systems with limited shared resources, but implementing optimal sequential resource allocation is often
a nontrivial problem in complex systems with uncertainties.
In this paper, we present an MILP-based algorithm that can
automatically break a large mission into multiple phases and
make optimal resource (re)allocations at the entry of each
phase. We illustrate our algorithms through several increasingly complex classes of sequential resource allocation problems, and show through experiments that our techniques can
increase agents' rewards for varying levels of constraints on
resources and constraints on exchanging resources.</p>
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