<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>Tomorrow (<span style="font-size:13px">12th March</span>), 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: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/sotonecsreadinggroups/resources">https://sites.google.com/site/sotonecsreadinggroups/resources</a></div><div><br></div><div>Speaker:</div><div>Filippo Bistaffa<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:13px">Venue/Time:</div><div style="font-size:13px">B32/3073, 12th March, 1:15pm - 2pm (online participation: <a href="http://goo.gl/bTKsje" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(147,88,77);font-size:1em;text-decoration:none;font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.8">http://goo.gl/bTKsje</a>)</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Title: </div><div style="font-size:13px">Coalition Formation in Multi-Agent Systems<br><br>Abstract: </div></div><div style="font-size:13px">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:<br>- coalitional value calculation: defining a characteristic function which, given a coalition as an argument, provides its coalitional value;<br>- 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<br>- payment computation: finding the transfer or payment to each agent to ensure it is fairly rewarded for its contribution to its coalition.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dengji</div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--------------------------------<br></div><div>Dengji Zhao<br></div><div>Research Fellow<br><div>Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group (AIC)</div><div>School of Electronics and Computer Science </div><div>University of Southampton </div><div>Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom</div></div><div><a href="http://dengji-zhao.net" target="_blank">http://dengji-zhao.net</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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