TY - JOUR AU - Yeoh, William AU - Yokoo, Makoto PY - 2012/09/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Distributed Problem Solving JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 33 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.1609/aimag.v33i3.2429 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2429 SP - 53 AB - Distributed problem solving is a subfield within multiagent systems, where agents are assumed to be part of a team and collaborate with each other to reach a common goal. In this article, we illustrate the motivations for distributed problem solving and provide an overview of two distributed problem solving models, namely distributed constraint satisfaction problems (DCSPs) and distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs), and some of their algorithms. ER -