Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is the problem of partitioning the set of agents into exh...
Classic direct mechanisms require full type (or utility) revelation from participating agents, something that can be very difficult in practical multi-attribute settings. In this...
Reasoning about agent preferences on a set of alternatives, and the aggregation of such preferences into some social ranking is a fundamental issue in reasoning about multi-agent ...
In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in "modular reinforcement learning" (MRL). Typically, problems are decomposed into concurrent subgoals, allowing ...
Sooraj Bhat, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Matea...
We embark on an initial study of a new class of strategic (normal-form) games, so-called ranking games, in which the payoff to each agent solely depends on his position in a ranki...