[Game-theory] Reminder: (Tomorrow 1:15pm) Coalition Formation in Multi-Agent Systems

[Dengji Zhao]

Dear all,

Tomorrow (12th March), Filippo Bistaffa will give us a tutorial about
coalition formation in our game theory reading group. If you have missed
passed talks, all the slides of them are available on the website:
https://sites.google.com/site/sotonecsreadinggroups/resources

Speaker:
Filippo Bistaffa

Venue/Time:
B32/3073, 12th March, 1:15pm - 2pm (online participation:
http://goo.gl/bTKsje)

Title:
Coalition Formation in Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract:
Coalition formation represents a powerful tool in cooperative game theory,
used to model cooperations among agents in scenarios in which they cannot
complete tasks by themselves. In this tutorial, I will provide a brief
introduction on the main concepts regarding coalition formation and on the
state of the art techniques that can be adopted to compute solutions. In
particular, I will address the 3 main tasks involved in the coalition
formation process:
- coalitional value calculation: defining a characteristic function which,
given a coalition as an argument, provides its coalitional value;
- coalition structure generation: finding a partition of the set of agents
(into disjoint coalitions) that maximises the sum of the values of the
chosen coalitions
- payment computation: finding the transfer or payment to each agent to
ensure it is fairly rewarded for its contribution to its coalition.

Cheers,
Dengji
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Dengji Zhao
Research Fellow
Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group (AIC)
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
http://dengji-zhao.net
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