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ESAW
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Managing Conflicts Between Individuals and Societies in Multi-agent Systems
The development of multi-agent systems (MAS) implies considering both the social and individual levels of these systems. However, the elements in these levels are not necessarily c...
Rubén Fuentes, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, ...
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Valuation Uncertainty and Imperfect Introspection in Second-Price Auctions
In auction theory, agents are typically presumed to have perfect knowledge of their valuations. In practice, though, they may face barriers to this knowledge due to transaction co...
David Robert Martin Thompson, Kevin Leyton-Brown
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Self-organization for coordinating decentralized reinforcement learning
Decentralized reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to a number of distributed applications. However, one of the main challenges faced by DRL is its convergence. Previous ...
Chongjie Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Sherief Abdallah
CORR
2002
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Complexity of Mechanism Design
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism de...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
AAAI
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Threats and Trade-Offs in Resource Critical Crowdsourcing Tasks Over Networks
In recent times, crowdsourcing over social networks has emerged as an active tool for complex task execution. In this paper, we address the problem faced by a planner to incentivi...
Swaprava Nath, Pankaj Dayama, Dinesh Garg, Y. Nara...