Title:
Agent Teams For Design Problems
Keywords:
Generative Design, Team Formation , Collaboration, Distributed AI, Team Formation
Credits:
Leandro Marcolino, Haifeng Xu, David Gerber, Boian Kolev, Samori Price, Evangelos Pantazis, Milind Tambe
Description:
Design imposes a novel social choice problem: using a team of voting agents, maximize the number of optimal solutions; allowing a user to then take an aesthetical choice. In an open system of design agents, team formation is fundamental. We present the first model of agent teams for design. For maximum applicability, we envision agents that are queried for a single opinion, and multiple solutions are obtained by multiple iterations. We show that diverse teams composed of agents with different preferences maximize the number of optimal solutions, while uniform teams composed of multiple copies of the best agent are in general suboptimal. Our experiments study the model in bounded time; and we also study a real system, where agents vote to design buildings.