Weighted voting games are a natural and practically important class of simple coalitional games, in which each agent is assigned a numeric weight, and a coalition is deemed to be ...
Piotr Faliszewski, Edith Elkind, Michael Wooldridg...
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
With the increasing use of the internet, many problemsolving tasks such as resource allocation, scheduling, planning, and configuration pose themselves in an open setting involvi...
Constraint satisfaction has been applied with great success in closed-world scenarios, where all options and constraints are known from the beginning and fixed. With the internet,...
Merging operators try to define the beliefs of a group of agents according to the beliefs of each member of the group. Several model-based propositional belief merging operators h...