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We develop a full-fledged analysis of an algorithmic decision process that, in a multialternative choice problem, produces computable choice probabilities and expected decision times.

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-05-08 Carlo Baldassi , Fabio Maccheroni , Massimo Marinacci , Marco Pirazzini

We study the complexity of several combinatorial problems in the model of binary networked public goods games. In this game, players are represented by vertices in a network, and the action of each player can be either investing or not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yongjie Yang , Jianxin Wang

Hedonic games model settings in which a set of agents have to be partitioned into groups which we call coalitions. In the enemy aversion model, each agent has friends and enemies, and an agent prefers to be in a coalition with as few…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Martin Durand , Laurin Erlacher , Johanne Müller Vistisen , Sofia Simola

The research on coalitional games has focused on how to share the reward among a coalition such that players are incentivised to collaborate together. It assumes that the (deterministic or stochastic) characteristic function is known in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Dengji Zhao , Yiqing Huang , Liat Cohen , Tal Grinshpoun

Decision making in modern large-scale and complex systems such as communication networks, smart electricity grids, and cyber-physical systems motivate novel game-theoretic approaches. This paper investigates big strategic (non-cooperative)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Tansu Alpcan , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Christopher Leckie

Fairness in multiwinner elections, a growing line of research in computational social choice, primarily concerns the use of constraints to ensure fairness. Recent work proposed a model to find a diverse \emph{and} representative committee…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Kunal Relia

The aim of the paper is to examine the computational complexity and algorithmics of enumeration, the task to output all solutions of a given problem, from the point of view of parameterized complexity. First we define formally different…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Nadia Creignou , Arne Meier , Julian-Steffen Müller , Johannes Schmidt , Heribert Vollmer

We study the computational complexity of finding stable outcomes in hedonic games, which are a class of coalition formation games. We restrict our attention to symmetric additively-separable hedonic games, which are a nontrivial subclass of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Martin Gairing , Rahul Savani

This paper studies the unification problem with associative, commutative, and associative-commutative functions mainly from a viewpoint of the parameterized complexity on the number of variables. It is shown that both associative and…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-10-04 Tatsuya Akutsu , Takeyuki Tamura , Atsuhiro Takasu

Voting theory has become increasingly integrated with computational social choice and multiagent systems. Computational complexity has been extensively used as a shield against manipulation of voting systems, however for several voting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Curtis Menton , Preetjot Singh

We study the complexity of solving two-player infinite duration games played on a fixed finite graph, where the control of a node is not predetermined but rather assigned randomly. In classic random-turn games, control of each node is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sarvin Bahmani , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Friedrich Slivovsky , Qiyi Tang , Dominik Wojtczak , Shufang Zhu

Genetic Programming (GP) has found various applications. Understanding this type of algorithm from a theoretical point of view is a challenging task. The first results on the computational complexity of GP have been obtained for problems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Markus Wagner , Frank Neumann

Coalition formation is a key topic in multi-agent systems. Coalitions enable agents to achieve goals that they may not have been able to achieve on their own. Previous work has shown problems in coalitional games to be computationally hard.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Vahid Liaghat

The knapsack problem (KP) is a very famous NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization. Also its generalization to multiple dimensions named d-dimensional knapsack problem (d-KP) and to multiple knapsacks named multiple knapsack problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Carolin Albrecht , Frank Gurski , Jochen Rethmann , Eda Yilmaz

Algorithmic fairness in recommender systems requires close attention to the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders that may have competing interests. Previous work in this area has often been limited by fixed, single-objective definitions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Amanda Aird , Elena Štefancová , Cassidy All , Amy Voida , Martin Homola , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

We investigate two types of query games played on a graph, pair queries and edge queries. We concentrate on investigating the two associated graph parameters for binomial random graphs, and showing that determining any of the two parameters…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Dariusz Dereniowski , Przemysław Gordinowicz , Paweł Prałat

We analyze how numerical experiments regarding elections were conducted within the computational social choice literature (focusing on papers published in the IJCAI, AAAI, and AAMAS conferences). We analyze the sizes of the studied…

This survey is focused on certain sequential decision-making problems that involve optimizing over probability functions. We discuss the relevance of these problems for learning and control. The survey is organized around a framework that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Emiland Garrabe , Giovanni Russo

This thesis presents some geometric insights into three different types of two player prediction games -- namely general learning task, prediction with expert advice, and online convex optimization. These games differ in the nature of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Parameswaran Kamalaruban

We study the collective schedules problem, which consists in computing a one machine schedule of a set of tasks, knowing that a set of individuals (also called voters) have preferences regarding the order of the execution of the tasks. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Martin Durand , Fanny Pascual