A new architecture for intelligent agents to join a currently existing coalition

The coalition formation (CF) is one of the dynamic organization methods for agents to collaborate under common goals. According to the existing protocols, agents only able to join a coalition when it receives invitation from other or form its own coalition. The idle agents have suffered the limitation of being not able to join the existing coalition. To address this issue, we have introduced join coalition architecture (JCA) that enables agents to join currently existing coalition. The JCA is based on the framework that accounts agents' social, individual control, budget and trust. This paper has addressed the two major coalition's management approaches such as (1) microscopic and (2) macroscopic based coalition. The experiments have shown the idle agents are able to join the existing coalition and will be discussed.