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ATAL
2007
Springer

Effective tag mechanisms for evolving coordination

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Effective tag mechanisms for evolving coordination
Tags or observable features shared by a group of similar agents are effectively used in real and artificial societies to signal intentions and can be used to infer unobservable properties and choose appropriate behaviors. Use of tags to select partners has been shown to produce stable cooperation in agent populations playing the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. Existing tag mechanisms, however, can promote cooperation only if that requires identical actions from all group members. We propose a more general tag-based interaction scheme that facilitates and supports significantly richer coordination between agents. Our work is motivated by previous research that showed the ineffectiveness of current tag schemes for solving games requiring divergent actions. The mechanisms proposed here not only solves those problems but are effective for other general-sum games. We argue that these general-purpose tag mechanisms allow new application possibilities of multiagent learning algorithms as the...
Matthew Matlock, Sandip Sen
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ATAL
Authors Matthew Matlock, Sandip Sen
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