Coalition Formation in Multi-Agent Systems Based on Bottlenose Dolphin Alliances
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Haque, Musad A.
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Abstract
Male bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus,
found off the coast of Western Australia and Florida, often
form varied levels of alliances to capture females and increase
their chances of mating. One such alliance, known as the
first-order alliance, consists of 2-3 dolphins that share a very
strong "bond", formally known as the Association coefficient
in behavioral biology. We formalize factors that affect the
coefficient, and analyze their influence in building alliances
in the context of multi-agent coalition formation. We produce
a model of the first-order alliance as a hybrid automaton,
based solely on local information evolving over spatially defined
interaction topologies, where the model is expressive enough to
capture the biological phenomenon, yet simple enough to derive
results through analysis.
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2009-06
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