TY - GEN
T1 - IDB-ADOPT
T2 - 13th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2008
AU - Yeoh, William
AU - Felner, Ariel
AU - Koenig, Sven
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was done while Ariel Felner spent his sabbatical at the University of Southern California, visiting Sven Koenig. This research has been partly supported by an NSF award to Sven Koenig under contract IIS-0350584. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied of the sponsoring organizations, agencies, companies or the U.S. government.
PY - 2009/9/14
Y1 - 2009/9/14
N2 - Many agent coordination problems can be modeled as distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) problems. ADOPT is an asynchronous and distributed search algorithm that is able to solve DCOP problems optimally. In this paper, we introduce Iterative Decreasing Bound ADOPT (IDB-ADOPT), a modification of ADOPT that changes the search strategy of ADOPT from performing one best-first search to performing a series of depth-first searches. Each depth-first search is provided with a bound, initially a large integer, and returns the first solution whose cost is smaller than or equal to the bound. The bound is then reduced to the cost of this solution minus one and the process repeats. If there is no solution whose cost is smaller than or equal to the bound, it returns a cost-minimal solution. Thus, IDB-ADOPT is an anytime algorithm that solves DCOP problems with integer costs optimally. Our experimental results for graph coloring problems show that IDB-ADOPT runs faster (that is, needs fewer cycles) than ADOPT on large DCOP problems, with savings of up to one order of magnitude.
AB - Many agent coordination problems can be modeled as distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) problems. ADOPT is an asynchronous and distributed search algorithm that is able to solve DCOP problems optimally. In this paper, we introduce Iterative Decreasing Bound ADOPT (IDB-ADOPT), a modification of ADOPT that changes the search strategy of ADOPT from performing one best-first search to performing a series of depth-first searches. Each depth-first search is provided with a bound, initially a large integer, and returns the first solution whose cost is smaller than or equal to the bound. The bound is then reduced to the cost of this solution minus one and the process repeats. If there is no solution whose cost is smaller than or equal to the bound, it returns a cost-minimal solution. Thus, IDB-ADOPT is an anytime algorithm that solves DCOP problems with integer costs optimally. Our experimental results for graph coloring problems show that IDB-ADOPT runs faster (that is, needs fewer cycles) than ADOPT on large DCOP problems, with savings of up to one order of magnitude.
KW - ADOPT
KW - DCOP
KW - Distributed Constraint Optimization
KW - Distributed Search Algorithms
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-03251-6_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-03251-6_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:69949115583
SN - 3642032508
SN - 9783642032509
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 132
EP - 146
BT - Recent Advances in Constraints - 13th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2008, Revised Selected Papers
Y2 - 18 June 2008 through 20 June 2008
ER -