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ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Honor among thieves: collusion in multi-unit auctions
We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...
Yoram Bachrach
GECCO
2007
Springer
196views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
16 years 24 days ago
Optimal nesting of species for exact cover of resources: two against many
The application of resource-defined fitness sharing (RFS) to shape nesting problems reveals a remarkable ability to discover tilings [7, 8]. These tilings represent exact covers...
Jeffrey Horn
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Coalition formation through motivation and trust
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable...
Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Evolving social rationality for MAS using "tags"
Endowing agents with “social rationality” [10, 12, 11] can aid overall efficiency in tasks where cooperation is beneficial to system level performance. However it is difficult...
David Hales, Bruce Edmonds
GECCO
2006
Springer
132views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
The role of diverse populations in phylogenetic analysis
The most popular approaches for reconstructing phylogenetic trees attempt to solve NP-hard optimization criteria such as maximum parsimony (MP). Currently, the bestperforming heur...
Tiffani L. Williams, Marc L. Smith