Combinatorial auctions have been studied by the multiagent systems community for some time, since these auctions are an effective mechanism for resource allocation when agents are...
Agents in a multi-agent system do not act in a vacuum. The outcome of their efforts depends on the environment in which they seek to act, and in particular on the efforts of other...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Robert Bisson, Sven A. Brueck...
Autonomous agents transcend their individual capabilities by cooperating towards achieving shared goals. The different viewpoints agents have on the environment cause disagreement...
Alexandros Belesiotis, Michael Rovatsos, Iyad Rahw...
We introduce a game setting called a joint process, where the history of actions determine the state, and the state and agent properties determine the payoff. This setting is a sp...
We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...