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IDC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Cost of Cooperation for Scheduling Meetings
Scheduling meetings among agents can be represented as a game - the Meetings Scheduling Game (MSG). In its simplest form, the two-person MSG is shown to have a price of anarchy (Po...
Alon Grubshtein, Amnon Meisels
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Target assistance for subtly balancing competitive play
In games where skills such as targeting are critical to winning, it is difficult for players with different skill levels to have a competitive and engaging experience. Although se...
Scott Bateman, Regan L. Mandryk, Tadeusz Stach, Ca...
GECCO
2008
Springer
143views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
How social structure and institutional order co-evolve beyond instrumental rationality
This study proposes an agent-based model where adaptively learning agents with local vision who are situated in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game change their strategy and location as...
Jae-Woo Kim
SAGT
2009
Springer
136views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Non-clairvoyant Scheduling Games
In a scheduling game, each player owns a job and chooses a machine to execute it. While the social cost is the maximal load over all machines (makespan), the cost (disutility) of ...
Christoph Dürr, Nguyen Kim Thang
ACMACE
2009
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Critical gameplay
How do games effect the way we problem solve, socialize, or even view the world? When we shoot do we learn to destroy obstacles instead of work around them? Does the binary world ...
Lindsay Grace