Browsing Theses by Subject "game theory"
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Application of Game Theory to Interactive Lane Change Decision Making for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-21)The decision-making and motion planning play a critical role in the autonomous driving by connecting the perception to the vehicle control. It aims at generating available paths in the specific driving environment considering ... -
Designing an Incentive-compatible Reward Scheme for Algorand
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-21)Founded in 2017, Algorand is the first carbon-negative blockchain protocol inspired by proof of stake. Algorand uses a Byzantine agreement protocol to add new blocks to the blockchain. The protocol can tolerate malicious ... -
Dynamic-Occlusion-Aware Risk Identification for Autonomous Vehicles Using Hypergames
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-17)A particular challenge for both autonomous vehicles (AV) and human drivers is dealing with risk associated with dynamic occlusion, i.e., occlusion caused by other vehicles in traffic. In order to overcome this challenge, ... -
Emergence and Implications of Conservation Opinion Propagation in Dynamic Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-22)Human behaviour is rarely a static phenomenon. In life, individuals are presented with choices that define the trajectories they will experience days, weeks or months later. As an example consider farmer decision-making ... -
Empirical Game Theoretic Models for Autonomous Driving: Methods and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-16)In recent years, there has been enormous public interest in autonomous vehicles (AV), with more than 80 billion dollars invested in self-driving car technology. However, for the foreseeable future, self-driving cars will ... -
Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)Motivated by multiple real-world settings, we determine a social welfare-maximizing regulator’s tax policies that induce a profit-maximizing polluting firm to make green technology choices. Using a game-theoretic approach ... -
Fair and Efficient Resource Scheduling in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-22)The performance of machine-learning applications heavily relies on the choice of the underlying hardware architecture, encompassing factors such as computational power, scalability, memory, and storage capabilities. These ... -
Fairness Notions on Hardware Resource Configuration
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-26)To meet performance and energy efficiency demand of modern workloads, specialized hardware accelerators implemented on FPGAs or ASICs have found adoption in modern servers and Systems-on-Chip (SoC). These hardware accelerators ... -
The Impact of Teams in Multiagent Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-31)Across many domains, the ability to work in teams can magnify a group's abilities beyond the capabilities of any individual. While the science of teamwork is typically studied in organizational psychology (OP) and areas ... -
Improving Convergence Rates in Multiagent Learning Through Experts and Adaptive Consultation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-07)Multiagent learning (MAL) is the study of agents learning while in the presence of other agents who are also learning. As a field, MAL is built upon work done in both artificial intelligence and game theory. Game theory ... -
Models of Deterministic and Stochastic Comparison: Two Studies in Applied Operations Research
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)This dissertation includes two essays on applications of management science methods to modelling service systems and developing novel improvements to sports team ranking systems. The first essay proposes a novel approach ... -
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Large Complex Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-15)Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has seen much success in the past decade. However, these methods are yet to find wide application in large-scale real world problems due to two important reasons. First, MARL ... -
Product Differentiation and Operations Strategy for Price and Time Sensitive Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-29)In this dissertation, we study the interplay between a firm’s operations strategy, with regard to its capacity management, and its marketing decision of product differentiation. For this, we study a market comprising ... -
Quantum Strategies and Local Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-06)This thesis is divided into two parts. In Part I we introduce a new formalism for quantum strategies, which specify the actions of one party in any multi-party interaction involving the exchange of multiple quantum messages ... -
Stackelberg Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Hierarchical Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)This thesis explores the application of multi-agent reinforcement learning in domains containing asymmetries between agents, caused by differences in information and position, resulting in a hierarchy of leaders and ... -
Strategic Blockchain Adoption in Supply Chain Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-17)Supply chains have often benefited from breakthroughs in information technology. Most recently, blockchain is promising to revolutionize the way supply chains are designed and operated. In this thesis, we explore blockchain ...