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In liquid democracy, agents can either vote directly or delegate their vote to a different agent of their choice. This results in a power structure in which certain agents possess more voting weight than others. As a result, it opens up…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shiri Alouf-Heffetz , Tanmay Inamdar , Pallavi Jain , Yash More , Nimrod Talmon

Repeated games have a long tradition in the behavioral sciences and evolutionary biology. Recently, strategies were discovered that permit an unprecedented level of control over repeated interactions by enabling a player to unilaterally…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-25 Alex McAvoy , Christoph Hauert

In the field of access control, delegation is an important aspect that is considered as a part of the administration mechanism. Thus, a complete access control must provide a flexible administration model to manage delegation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Meriam Ben Ghorbel-Talbi , Frederic Cuppens , Nora Cuppens-Boulahia , Adel Bouhoula

Decision-makers in high-stakes selection processes often face a fundamental choice: whether to make decisions themselves or to delegate authority to another entity whose incentives may only be partially aligned with their own. Such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Benjamin Fish , Diptangshu Sen , Juba Ziani

Social dilemmas, where mutual cooperation can lead to high payoffs but participants face incentives to cheat, are ubiquitous in multi-agent interaction. We wish to construct agents that cooperate with pure cooperators, avoid exploitation by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Alexander Peysakhovich , Adam Lerer

A key challenge in the study of multiagent cooperation is the need for individual agents not only to cooperate effectively, but to decide with whom to cooperate. This is particularly critical in situations when other agents have hidden,…

Causal games are probabilistic graphical models that enable causal queries to be answered in multi-agent settings. They extend causal Bayesian networks by specifying decision and utility variables to represent the agents' degrees of freedom…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Manuj Mishra , James Fox , Michael Wooldridge

The level of autonomy is increasing in systems spanning multiple domains, but these systems still experience failures. One way to mitigate the risk of failures is to integrate human oversight of the autonomous systems and rely on the human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Dylan M. Asmar , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

People frequently face challenging decision-making problems in which outcomes are uncertain or unknown. Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms exist that can outperform humans at learning such tasks. Thus, there is an opportunity for AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Ravi Pandya , Sandy H. Huang , Dylan Hadfield-Menell , Anca D. Dragan

Hadfield-Menell et al. (2017) propose the Off-Switch Game, a model of Human-AI cooperation in which AI agents always defer to humans because they are uncertain about our preferences. I explain two reasons why AI agents might not defer.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sven Neth

Negotiations, a model of concurrency with multi party negotiation as primitive, have been recently introduced in arXiv:1307.2145, arXiv:1403.4958. We initiate the study of games for this model. We study coalition problems: can a given…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Javier Esparza , Philipp Hoffmann

In a delegation problem, a principal P with commitment power tries to pick one out of $n$ options. Each option is drawn independently from a known distribution. Instead of inspecting the options herself, P delegates the information…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Pirmin Braun , Niklas Hahn , Martin Hoefer , Conrad Schecker

We consider a finite-horizon discrete-time dynamic system that is jointly controlled by two strategic agents. There is a system designer that has its own reward function but does not have direct control over the agents' actions. We consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Renyan Sun , Ashutosh Nayyar

We study a scenario where an adjudication task (e.g., the resolution of a binary dispute) is outsourced to a set of agents who are appointed as jurors. This scenario is particularly relevant in a Web3 environment, where no verification of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Ioannis Caragiannis , Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach

We study the problem of computing correlated strategies to commit to in games with multiple leaders and followers. To the best of our knowledge, this problem is widely unexplored so far, as the majority of the works in the literature focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti

Nguyen et al. [1] introduced altruistic hedonic games in which agents' utilities depend not only on their own preferences but also on those of their friends in the same coalition. We propose to extend their model to coalition formation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Anna Maria Kerkmann , Simon Cramer , Jörg Rothe

In this paper we investigate the notion of legibility in sequential decision-making in the context of teams and teamwork. There have been works that extend the notion of legibility to sequential decision making, for deterministic and for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Miguel Faria , Francisco S. Melo , Ana Paiva

Commitment devices are powerful tools that can influence and incentivise certain behaviours by linking them to rewards or punishments. These devices are particularly useful in decision-making, as they can steer individuals towards specific…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Maria Alejandra Ramirez , Yoav Kolumbus , Rosemarie Nagel , David Wolpert , Jürgen Jost

Traditional evolutionary game theory describes how certain strategy spreads throughout the system where individual player imitates the most successful strategy among its neighborhood. Accordingly, player doesn't have own authority to change…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Sundong Kim , Jin-Jae Lee

Contingency planning, wherein an agent generates a set of possible plans conditioned on the outcome of an uncertain event, is an increasingly popular way for robots to act under uncertainty. In this work we take a game-theoretic perspective…