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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Coalition formation"”.
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Coalition Formation In Multi-agent Uav Systems
Coalitions are collections of agents that join together to solve a common problem that either cannot be solved individually or can be solved more efficiently as a group. Each individual agent has capabilities that can benefit the group when working together as a coalition. Typically, individual …
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Essays on economic design and coalition formation
… consists of three essays on economic design and coalition formation. The first chapter studies the stability of many-to-one matching, such as matching between students and colleges or interns and hospitals. Complementarities and peer effects are inherent in many such matching situations. The …
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Essays on coalition formation under asymmetric information
… Bayesian framework. In doing this, since the coalition formation itself suffers information asymmetry problems, we assume that the coalition is formed if the colluding parties can successfully find some coalitional mechanism whose outcome is a set of messages in the original mechanism. …
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Algorithms for coalition formation in multi-agent systems
Coalition formation is a fundamental form of interaction that allows the creation of coherent groupings of distinct, autonomous, agents in order to efficiently achieve their individual or collective goals. Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent …
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The Effects of Resources and Alternatives on Coalition Formation
The formation of coalitions is an important social phenomenon which pervades every level of our lives, from the interpersonal to the international. Previous research has suggested that coalition formation is influenced both by the players' resources and by their alternative coalitions. Unfortu
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The impact of organizational reward and measurement systems on coalition formation in the buying center
… of reward systems on perceived conflict and coalition formation among those involved in organizational buying decisions are investigated. The buying decision process is examined as group behavior, and the group or buying center is used as the unit of analysis. An experimental design is …
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'Red-green' coalitions in the Federal Republic of Germany: models of formation and maintenance
The thesis examines the processes of coalition formation and maintenance involving the SPD and Green party at the sub-national level in the Federal Republic of Germany. The theoretical component builds upon formal models of coalition formation to posit a New Model of Coalition Formation and …
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Essays on political boundaries
… Japanese municipal mergers using a political coalition formation model. Political coalition formation games can describe the formation and dissolution of nations, as well as the creation of coalition governments, the establishment of political parties, and other similar phenomena. These games …
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Node Selection, Synchronization and Power Allocation in Cooperative Wireless Networks
… cooperative networks, and finally (iii) coalitional game-theoretic analysis and modeling of the dynamic interactions among the network nodes and their coalition formations. Bi-directional relay networks are first studied in a scenario where two source nodes are communicating with each …
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Essays in organization formation and decision making
… theory. The first two are about the formation of organizations, and the third is about individual or organizational decision making in ambiguous settings. In the first essay I explore the implications of costs associated with binding agreements on equilibrium agreement structures. …
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Essays in political economy
… competition and ratchet effect incentives in a coalition-formation game of incomplete information. Rulers require the support of a subset of politically powerful groups to remain in power. These have private information about their cost of providing political support. A ruler can attempt to …
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Export Strategies for Ivory Coast Cocoa
… using policy actions such as taxation, hedging, coalition formation, reservation pricing and scheduled marketings. One can typify the cocoa market as an interfacing of oligopolistic exporters and oligopsonistic importers, thus the market equations needed to find spatial equilibrium solutions are …
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A Game Theoretic Analysis of Agent -Mediated Resource Allocation
Developments in information technology have necessitated dynamic distributed real-time allocation of computational and network resources. We consider the use of market mechanisms to regulate a set of autonomous agents that are responsible for obtaining services. By applying game-theoretic analysis …
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Opozicinių koalicijų sėkmės konkurencinio autoritarizmo rinkimuose priežastys /
… that might explain the success of pre-electoral coalitions formed by opposition parties in competitive authoritarian elections. Previous research has focused more on the aspects of opposition coalition formation and the impact of such coalitions on regime democratisation. The determinants of …
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Resource Management in Large-scale Systems
… the models described above. Algorithms such as coalition formation, combinatorial auctions and clustering algorithm for scale-free organizations of scale-free networks. 3. Evaluation. Eventually we conducted different evaluations for the proposed models and algorithms in order to verify them. …
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Comments on the cybernetics of stability and regulation in social systems
… behaviour. In particular, the role of coalition formation and cooperative behaviour is stressed as a key factor in the evolution of complexity. The model consists of a population of several species of dimensionless automata inhabiting a geometrically defined environment in which a …
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