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2009
Springer
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Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Context-aware multi-stage routing
In context-aware route planning, a set of agents has to plan routes on a common infrastructure and each agent has to plan a conflict-free route from a source to a destination wit...
Adriaan ter Mors, Jeroen van Belle, Cees Witteveen
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Effective tag mechanisms for evolving cooperation
Certain observable features (tags), shared by a group of similar agents, can be used to signal intentions and can be effectively used to infer unobservable properties. Such infere...
Matthew Matlock, Sandip Sen
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
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...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Actor-agent application for train driver rescheduling
This paper describes the design, implementation, visualizations, results and lessons learned of a novel real-world socio-technical research system for the purpose of rescheduling ...
Erwin J. W. Abbink, David G. A. Mobach, Pieter-Jan...