Analysis of Collectivism and Egoism Phenomena within the Context of Social Welfare

Comparative benefits provided by the basic social strategies including collectivism and egoism are investigated within the framework of democratic decision-making. In particular, we study the mechanism of growing "snowball" of cooperation.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures. Translated from Russian. Original Russian Text published in Problemy Upravleniya, 2008, No. 4, pp. 30-3

On the conformation of 2-alkoxytetrahydropyran-2-yl radicals

Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

Elementary Modules in Games Networks

International audienceIn this paper we propose an original modular extension of game theory named games network. The objective of games networks is to provide a theoretical framework which suits to modular dynamics resulting from different local interactions between various agents and which enables us to describe complex system in a modular way. Games networks describes situations where an agent can be involved in several different games, with several different other agents, at the same time. In particular, we focus on the determination of global equilibria, resulting from the composition of local equilibria for each game of the network. However, several games networks can represent the same dynamics. We define the notion of dependence between agents, which allows us to compute a games network normal form. This normal form emphasizes the elementary modules which compose the games network

The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2011)

... is an international competition that challenges researchers to develop a successful automated negotiator for scenarios where there is incomplete information about the opponent. One of the goals of this competition is to help steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue negotiations, and to encourage the design of generic negotiating agents that are able to operate in a variety of scenarios. Eighteen teams from seven different institutes competed in ANAC2011. This chapter describes the participating agents and the setup of the tournament, including the different negotiation scenarios that were used in the competition. We report on the results of the qualifying and final round of the tournament