As computers inevitably begin to replace humans as the drivers of automobiles, our current human-centric traffic management mechanisms will give way to hyper-efficient systems and...
Mark Van Middlesworth, Kurt M. Dresner, Peter Ston...
Mechanism design (MD) has recently become a very popular approach in the design of distributed systems of autonomous agents. A key assumption required for the application of MD is...
In open settings, the participants are autonomous and there is no central authority to ensure the felicity of their interactions. When agents interact in such settings, each relie...
Reward shaping is a well-known technique applied to help reinforcement-learning agents converge more quickly to nearoptimal behavior. In this paper, we introduce social reward sha...
Monica Babes, Enrique Munoz de Cote, Michael L. Li...
This paper discusses the application of distributed constraint optimization to coordination in disaster management situations under sub-optimal network conditions. It presents an ...
Robert N. Lass, Joseph B. Kopena, Evan Sultanik, D...