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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Characterizing effective auction mechanisms: insights from the 2007 TAC market design competition
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerdi...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Agent-based models for animal cognition: a proposal and prototype
Animal ecologists have successfully applied agent-based models to many different problems. Often, these focus on issues concerning collective behaviors, environmental interactions...
Elske van der Vaart, Rineke Verbrugge
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Norm emergence under constrained interactions in diverse societies
Effective norms, emerging from sustained individual interactions over time, can complement societal rules and significantly enhance performance of individual agents and agent soci...
Partha Mukherjee, Sandip Sen, Stéphane Airi...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Copeland voting: ties matter
We study the complexity of manipulation for a family of election systems derived from Copeland voting via introducing a parameter that describes how ties in head-to-head contests...
Piotr Faliszewski, Edith Hemaspaandra, Henning Sch...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Reusing models in multi-agent simulation with software components
on models are abstract representations of systems one wants to study through computer simulation. In multiagent based simulation, such models usually represent agents and their re...
Paulo Salem da Silva, Ana Cristina Vieira de Melo
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Decentralized algorithms for collision avoidance in airspace
The paper proposes decentralized deconfliction algorithms deployed on multiple autonomous aerial vehicles in freeflight operations. The paper provides two separate algorithms for ...
David Sislák, Jiri Samek, Michal Pechoucek
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em poker player: discretized betting models and automatically generated equilibrium-finding progr
We present Tartanian, a game theory-based player for headsup no-limit Texas Hold'em poker. Tartanian is built from three components. First, to deal with the virtually infinit...
Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm, Troels Bjerre S&os...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Conjunctive queries for ontology based agent communication in MAS
In order to obtain semantic interoperability in open MultiAgent Systems, agents need to agree on the basis of different ontologies. In this paper we formally define mapping as cor...
Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, Paulo Quaresma, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Artificial agents learning human fairness
Recent advances in technology allow multi-agent systems to be deployed in cooperation with or as a service for humans. Typically, those systems are designed assuming individually ...
Steven de Jong, Karl Tuyls, Katja Verbeeck
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Automated design of scoring rules by learning from examples
Scoring rules are a broad and concisely-representable class of voting rules which includes, for example, Plurality and Borda. Our main result asserts that the class of scoring rul...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosensc...