5 papers
Strategic Interactions in Multi-Level Stackelberg Games with Non-Follower Agents and Heterogeneous Leaders
Niloofar Aminikalibar, Farzaneh Farhadi, Maria Chli
Strategic interaction in congested systems is commonly modelled using Stackelberg games, where competing leaders anticipate the behaviour of self-interested followers. A key limita…
Robust Information Design for Multi-Agent Systems with Complementarities: Smallest-Equilibrium Threshold Policies
Farzaneh Farhadi, Maria Chli
We study information design in multi-agent systems (MAS) with binary actions and strategic complementarities, where an external designer influences behavior only through signals. A…
Optimal Auction Design for the Gradual Procurement of Strategic Service Provider Agents
Farzaneh Farhadi, Maria Chli, Nicholas R. Jennings
We consider an outsourcing problem where a software agent procures multiple services from providers with uncertain reliabilities to complete a computational task before a strict de…
Domain Adaptation for Reinforcement Learning on the Atari
Thomas Carr, Maria Chli, George Vogiatzis
Deep reinforcement learning agents have recently been successful across a variety of discrete and continuous control tasks; however, they can be slow to train and require a large n…
The emergence of knowledge exchange: an agent-based model of a software market
Maria Chli, Philippe De Wilde
We investigate knowledge exchange among commercial organisations, the rationale behind it and its effects on the market. Knowledge exchange is known to be beneficial for industry,…