3 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
The Physics and Metaphysics of Social Powers: Bridging Cognitive Processing and Social Dynamics, a New Perspective on Power through Active Inference
Mahault Albarracin, Sonia de Jager, David Hyland +1
The concept of power can be explored at several scales: from physical action and process effectuation, all the way to complex social dynamics. A spectrum-wide analysis of power req…
cs.GT2023
Principal-Agent Boolean Games
David Hyland, Julian Gutierrez, Michael Wooldridge
We introduce and study a computational version of the principal-agent problem -- a classic problem in Economics that arises when a principal desires to contract an agent to carry o…
cs.GT2023
k-Prize Weighted Voting Games
Wei-Chen Lee, David Hyland, Alessandro Abate +5
We introduce a natural variant of weighted voting games, which we refer to as k-Prize Weighted Voting Games. Such games consist of n players with weights, and k prizes, of possibly…