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Scalable Multi-agent Coordination and Resource Sharing
A plethora of real world problems consist of a number of agents that interact, learn, cooperate, coordinate, and compete with others in ever more complex environments. Examples include autonomous vehicles, robotic agents, intelligent infrastructure, IoT de ...
EPFL2022Environmental care and morality: An economic model with heterogeneous agents
Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi
Some individuals voluntarily engage in costly pro-environmental actions although their efforts have limited direct benefits. This paper proposes a novel economic model with heterogeneous agents explaining why. Each agent has a homo moralis type of preferen ...
2020Robot Mirroring: Promoting Empathy with an Artificial Agent by Reflecting the User's Physiological Affective States
Self-tracking aims to increase awareness, decrease undesired behaviors, and ultimately lead towards a healthier lifestyle. However, inappropriate communication of self-tracking results might cause the opposite effect. Subtle self-tracking feedback is an al ...
IEEE2020Learning Generalized Nash Equilibria in a Class of Convex Games
We consider multiagent decision making where each agent optimizes its convex cost function subject to individual and coupling constraints. The constraint sets are compact convex subsets of a Euclidean space. To learn Nash equilibria, we propose a novel dis ...
2019Dynamic interaction of market and behavioural barriers in the transition towards a circular economy: a heterogeneous-agent approach
In this paper we analyse transition towards circular economy as a complex adaptive system focusing on the market and behavioural barriers. We investigate the conditions for successful introduction of a new production which is appropriate for a circular eco ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017Payoff-Based Approach to Learning Nash Equilibria in Convex Games * *This research is partially supported by M. Kamgarpour’s European Union ERC Starting Grant, CONENE.
We consider multi-agent decision making, where each agent optimizes its cost function subject to constraints. Agents’ actions belong to a compact convex Euclidean space and the agents’ cost functions are coupled. We propose a distributed payoff-based algor ...
2017Smart Products for Sharing
Sharing markets create mutual insurance for consumers who are unsure about their future needs for goods, thus rendering products more valuable both before and after the purchase. By embedding intelligence in their products, enabling them to sense, monitor, ...
2017Elicitation and Aggregation of Crowd Information
This thesis addresses challenges in elicitation and aggregation of crowd information for settings where an information collector, called center, has a limited knowledge about information providers, called agents. Each agent is assumed to have noisy private ...
EPFL2016Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro-data from the United States and 17 European countries, we document that women are typically the largest contributors to the cross-country differences in work hours. We also show that there is a negative relat ...
Elsevier Science Bv2015Intermediation in a Sharing Economy: Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Rent Extraction
Electronic intermediaries have become pervasive in sales transactions for many durables, such as cars, power tools, and apartments. Yet only recently have they successfully tackled the challenge of enabling parties to share such goods. A key impediment to ...
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