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AAMAS
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Coordinated learning in multiagent MDPs with infinite state-space
Abstract In this paper we address the problem of simultaneous learning and coordination in multiagent Markov decision problems (MMDPs) with infinite state-spaces. We separate this ...
Francisco S. Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro
AAMAS
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Optimizing fixed-size stochastic controllers for POMDPs and decentralized POMDPs
POMDPs and their decentralized multiagent counterparts, DEC-POMDPs, offer a rich framework for sequential decision making under uncertainty. Their computational complexity, howeve...
Christopher Amato, Daniel S. Bernstein, Shlomo Zil...
AAMAS
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
What the 2007 TAC Market Design Game tells us about effective auction mechanisms
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design Game. We present a classification of the entries to the competition, and use this classification to compare these ent...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurn...
AAMAS
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Multi-goal economic search using dynamic search structures
This paper investigates cooperative search strategies for agents engaged in costly search in a complex environment. Searching cooperatively, several search goals can be satisfied w...
David Sarne, Efrat Manisterski, Sarit Kraus
AAMAS
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
ASPECS: an agent-oriented software process for engineering complex systems
Holonic multiagent systems (HMAS) offers a promising software engineering approach for developing complex open software systems. However the process of building MultiAgent Systems...
Massimo Cossentino, Nicolas Gaud, Vincent Hilaire,...
AAMAS
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
A probabilistic multimodal approach for predicting listener backchannels
During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...