Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Subject "Multiagent Systems"
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Addressing the Issues of Coalitions and Collusion in Multiagent Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)In the field of multiagent systems, trust and reputation systems are intended to assist agents in finding trustworthy partners with whom to interact. Earlier work of ours identified in theory a number of security ... -
Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation using Reservations to Improve Handling of Dynamic Task Arrivals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)In the artificial intelligence subfield of multi-agent systems, there are many applications for algorithms which optimally allocate a set of resources among many available tasks which demand those resources. In this thesis ... -
A Framework for Resource Allocation in Time Critical Dynamic Environments Based on Social Welfare and Local Search and its Application to Healthcare
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-14)This thesis provides an artificial intelligence approach for the problem of resource allocation in time-critical dynamic environments. Motivated by healthcare scenarios such as mass casualty incidents, we are concerned ... -
Incentives in One-Sided Matching Problems With Ordinal Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-27)One of the core problems in multiagent systems is how to efficiently allocate a set of indivisible resources to a group of self-interested agents that compete over scarce and limited alternatives. In these settings, mechanism ... -
Promoting Honesty in Electronic Marketplaces: Combining Trust Modeling and Incentive Mechanism Design
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-14)This thesis work is in the area of modeling trust in multi-agent systems, systems of software agents designed to act on behalf of users (buyers and sellers), in applications such as e-commerce. The focus is on developing ... -
Recommending messages to users in participatory media environments: a Bayesian credibility approach
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-09)In this thesis, we address the challenge of information overload in online participatory messaging environments using an artificial intelligence approach drawn from research in multiagent systems trust modeling. In particular, ... -
Strategic Voting and Social Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)With the ever increasing ubiquity of social networks in our everyday lives, comes an increasing urgency for us to understand their impact on human behavior. Social networks quantify the ways in which we communicate with ... -
Trust-based Incentive Mechanisms for Community-based Multiagent Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-16)In this thesis we study peer-based communities which are online communities whose services are provided by their participant agents. In order to improve the services an agent enjoys in these communities, we need to improve ...