Electronic institutions are a formalism to define and analyse protocols among agents with a view to achieving global and individual goals. In this paper we propose a definition of ...
Traditional accounts of the semantic interpretation of quantified phrases and its interaction with reference and ellipsis have relied on formal manipulations of logical forms (qua...
We address the problem of transferring information learned from experiments to a different environment, in which only passive observations can be collected. We introduce a formal ...
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
The paper proposes a unification of the two main frameworks commonly used for the analysis of collective decisionmaking: the framework of preference aggregation, developed from t...