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ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
UAV swarm coordination using cooperative control for establishing a wireless communications backbone
In this paper, we present a mechanism to fly a swarm of UAVs with the aim of establishing a wireless backbone over a pre-specified area. The backbone is aimed at connecting interm...
Achudhan Sivakumar, Colin Keng-Yan Tan
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Strategy-proof allocation of multiple items between two agents without payments or priors
We investigate the problem of allocating items (private goods) among competing agents in a setting that is both prior-free and paymentfree. Specifically, we focus on allocating mu...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Honor among thieves: collusion in multi-unit auctions
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...
Yoram Bachrach
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Learning multi-agent state space representations
This paper describes an algorithm, called CQ-learning, which learns to adapt the state representation for multi-agent systems in order to coordinate with other agents. We propose ...
Yann-Michaël De Hauwere, Peter Vrancx, Ann No...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
ALIVE: an agent-based framework for dynamic and robust service-oriented applications
Service-oriented systems are becoming more and more nodes in a digital, dynamic ecosystem requiring the identification and establishment of flexible, spontaneous collaboration act...
Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Wamberto Weber Vasc...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Exploiting domain knowledge to improve norm synthesis
Social norms enable coordination in multiagent systems by constraining agent behaviour in order to achieve a social objective. Automating the design of social norms has been shown...
George Christelis, Michael Rovatsos, Ronald P. A. ...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Robust Bayesian methods for Stackelberg security games
Recent work has applied game-theoretic models to real-world security problems at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Federal Air Marshals Service (FAMS). The analysis o...
Christopher Kiekintveld, Milind Tambe, Janusz Mare...