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UAI
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Sequential Information Elicitation in Multi-Agent Systems
We introduce the study of sequential information elicitation in strategic multi-agent systems. In an information elicitation setup a center attempts to compute the value of a func...
Rann Smorodinsky, Moshe Tennenholtz
ICCCI
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Multi-agent Model of Deceit and Trust in Intercultural Trade
Trust is a sine qua non for trade. According to transaction cost economics, a contract always offers some opportunity to defect. In the case of asymmetric product information, wher...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Cost-based BDI plan selection for change propagation
Software maintenance is responsible for as much as two thirds of the cost of any software, and is consequently an important research area. In this paper we focus on the change pro...
Khanh Hoa Dam, Michael Winikoff
AAAI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Physical Search Problems Applying Economic Search Models
This paper considers the problem of an agent searching for a resource or a tangible good in a physical environment, where at each stage of its search it observes one source where ...
Yonatan Aumann, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus, David Sar...
CISS
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Equilibria and price of anarchy in parallel relay networks with node pricing
Abstract—We study pricing games in single-layer relay networks where the source routes traffic selfishly according to the strategic bids made by relays. Each relay’s bid incl...
Yufang Xi, Edmund M. Yeh