Social insect societies consist of individuals with simple behavior, yet at the collective level the societies are capable of solving complex tasks. These tasks span a wide range,...
We introduce the Consensual N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma as a large-scale dilemma. We then present a framework for cooperative consensus formation in large-scale MAS under the N-P...
Much of artificial intelligence research is focused on devising optimal solutions for challenging and well-defined but highly constrained problems. However, as we begin creating...
So far, most equilibrium concepts in game theory require that the rewards and actions of the other agents are known and/or observed by all agents. However, in real life problems, a...
Optimization of performance in collective systems often requires altruism. The emergence and stabilization of altruistic behaviors are dicult to achieve because the agents incur ...