Browsing Theses by Subject "multiagent systems"
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An Ex-Ante Rational Distributed Resource Allocation System using Transfer of Control Strategies for Preemption with Applications to Emergency Medicine
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-20)Within the artificial intelligence subfield of multiagent systems, one challenge that arises is determining how to efficiently allocate resources to all agents in a way that maximizes the overall expected utility. In this ... -
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 ... -
Novel Directions for Multiagent Trust Modeling in Online Social Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)This thesis presents two works with the shared goal of improving the capacity of multiagent trust modeling to be applied to social networks. The first demonstrates how analyzing the responses to content on a discussion ... -
Reasoning about Benefits and Costs of Interaction with Users in Real-time Decision Making Environments with Application to Healthcare Scenarios
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)This thesis examines the problem of having an intelligent agent reasoning about interaction with users in real-time decision making environments. Our work is motivated by the models of Fleming and Cheng, which reason about ... -
A Socio-Psychological Approach to the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)Affect Control Theory (ACT), as a model of human interaction, attempts to capture a part of the human psyche that tends to go overlooked in the study of Artificial Intelligence: the role of emotion in decision making. It ...