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AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Computing Optimal Strategies to Commit to in Stochastic Games
Significant progress has been made recently in the following two lines of research in the intersection of AI and game theory: (1) the computation of optimal strategies to commit ...
Joshua Letchford, Liam MacDermed, Vincent Conitzer...
EOR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Dynamic programming analysis of the TV game "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
This paper uses dynamic programming to investigate when contestants should use lifelines or when they should just stop answering in the TV quiz show ‘Who wants to be a millionai...
Federico Perea, Justo Puerto
JMLR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Linear Programs for Hypotheses Selection in Probabilistic Inference Models
We consider an optimization problem in probabilistic inference: Given n hypotheses Hj, m possible observations Ok, their conditional probabilities pk j, and a particular Ok, selec...
Anders Bergkvist, Peter Damaschke, Marcel Lüt...
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Optimal Strategies in Perfect-Information Stochastic Games with Tail Winning Conditions
We prove that optimal strategies exist in perfect-information stochastic games with finitely many states and actions and tail winning conditions.
Florian Horn, Hugo Gimbert
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Solving two-person zero-sum repeated games of incomplete information
In repeated games with incomplete information, rational agents must carefully weigh the tradeoffs of advantageously exploiting their information to achieve a short-term gain versu...
Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2001
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Optimal Negotiation Strategies for Agents with Incomplete Information
This paper analyzes the process of automated negotiation between two competitive agents that have firm deadlines and incomplete information about their opponent. Generally speaking...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
CIAC
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
On Strategy Improvement Algorithms for Simple Stochastic Games
The study of simple stochastic games (SSGs) was initiated by Condon for analyzing the computational power of randomized space-bounded alternating Turing machines. The game is play...
Rahul Tripathi, Elena Valkanova, V. S. Anil Kumar
STACS
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Pure Stationary Optimal Strategies in Markov Decision Processes
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are controllable discrete event systems with stochastic transitions. Performances of an MDP are evaluated by a payoff function. The controller of ...
Hugo Gimbert
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Reinforcement learning in extensive form games with incomplete information: the bargaining case study
We consider the problem of finding optimal strategies in infinite extensive form games with incomplete information that are repeatedly played. This problem is still open in lite...
Alessandro Lazaric, Jose Enrique Munoz de Cote, Ni...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Competitive Analysis of Opportunistic Spectrum Access Strategies
—We consider opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) strategies for a transmitter in a multichannel wireless system, where a channel may or may not be available and the transmitter m...
Nicholas B. Chang, Mingyan Liu