@conference {1510006,
	title = {Taking DCOP to the Real World : Efficient Complete Solutions for Distributed Event Scheduling },
	booktitle = {Third International Joint Conference on Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AAMAS},
	year = {2004},
	abstract = {Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is an
elegant formalism relevant to many areas in multiagent systems, yet complete algorithms have not been
pursued for real world applications due to perceived
complexity. To capably capture a rich class of complex problem domains, we introduce the Distributed
Multi-Event Scheduling (DiMES) framework and design
congruent DCOP formulations with binary constraints
which are proven to yield the optimal solution. To approach real-world efficiency requirements, we obtain immense speedups by improving communication structure
and precomputing best case bounds. Heuristics for generating better communication structures and calculating bound in a distributed manner are provided and
tested on systematically developed domains for meeting
scheduling and sensor networks, exemplifying the viability of complete algorithms.},
	author = {Rajiv T. Maheswaran and Tambe, Milind and Bowring, Emma and Jonathan P. Pearce and Varakantham, Pradeep}
}
