No free lunches in Multi-agent Systems, - a Characteristic Distribution approach to game theoretic modelling
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Stefan J. Johansson |
| Title: | No free lunches in Multi-agent Systems, - a Characteristic Distribution approach to game theoretic modelling |
| Conference name: | 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA 2001) |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Pagination: | 246-250 |
| ISBN: | 0-7695-1312-3 |
| Publisher: | IEEE COMPUTER SOC |
| City: | YOKUSIKA, JAPAN |
| ISI number: | 000173022300048 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science (Institutionen för programvaruteknik och datavetenskap) Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Science S-372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/eng/ipd/ |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | We introduce the notion of Characteristic Distributions which is a way of representing information about the payoffs of different behaviors in a Multi-agent System. Me discuss how they can be used to simplify and structure the analysis of strategies and prove i) the existence of optimal environments, given a certain behavior and ii) that all behaviors payoff equally, when taken over all possible environments (no free lunch theorem for strategies). |
| Subject: | Computer Science\Artificial Intelligence Computer Science\Distributed Computing |
