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2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Automated design of scoring rules by learning from examples
Scoring rules are a broad and concisely-representable class of voting rules which includes, for example, Plurality and Borda. Our main result asserts that the class of scoring rul...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosensc...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Stochastic search methods for nash equilibrium approximation in simulation-based games
We define the class of games called simulation-based games, in which the payoffs are available as an output of an oracle (simulator), rather than specified analytically or using a...
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Michael P. Wellman
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Checking correctness of business contracts via commitments
Business contracts tend to be complex. In current practice, contracts are often designed by hand and adopted by their participants after, at best, a manual analysis. This paper mo...
Nirmit Desai, Nanjangud C. Narendra, Munindar P. S...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Trading off solution cost for smaller runtime in DCOP search algorithms
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a key technique for solving multiagent coordination problems. Unfortunately, finding minimal-cost DCOP solutions is NP-hard. We there...
William Yeoh, Sven Koenig, Xiaoxun Sun
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Learning task-specific trust decisions
We study the problem of agents locating other agents that are both capable and willing to help complete assigned tasks. An agent incurs a fixed cost for each help request it sends...
Ikpeme Erete, Erin Ferguson, Sandip Sen