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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.62

Mechanisms for Opponent Modelling

Authors: Christos Hadjinikolis, Sanjay Modgil, Elizabeth Black, and Peter McBurney

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 28, 2012 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop

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In various competitive game contexts, gathering information about one's opponent and relying on it for planning a strategy has been the dominant approach for numerous researchers who deal with what in game theoretic terms is known as the best response problem. This approach is known as opponent modelling. The general idea is given a model of one's adversary to rely on it for simulating the possible ways based on which a game may evolve, so as to then choose out of a number of response options the most suitable~in relation to one's goals. Similarly, many approaches concerned with strategising in the context of dialogue games rely on such models for implementing and employing strategies. In most cases though, the methodologies and the formal procedures based on which an opponent model may be built and updated receive little attention, as they are usually left implicit. In this paper we assume a general framework for argumentation-based persuasion dialogue, and we rely on a logical conception of arguments - based on the recent ASPIC^+ model for argumentation - to formally define a number of mechanisms based on which an opponent model may be built, updated, and augmented.

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Christos Hadjinikolis, Sanjay Modgil, Elizabeth Black, and Peter McBurney. Mechanisms for Opponent Modelling. In 2012 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 28, pp. 62-68, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@InProceedings{hadjinikolis_et_al:OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.62,
  author =	{Hadjinikolis, Christos and Modgil, Sanjay and Black, Elizabeth and McBurney, Peter},
  title =	{{Mechanisms for Opponent Modelling}},
  booktitle =	{2012 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop},
  pages =	{62--68},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-48-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{28},
  editor =	{Jones, Andrew V.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.62},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-37663},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.62},
  annote =	{Keywords: dialogue, strategies, argumentation, opponent model}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.149

Introduction to Team Disruption Mechanisms

Authors: Andrada Voinitchi, Elizabeth Black, and Michael Luck

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 28, 2012 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop

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This paper discusses how teams can be disrupted. More specifically, it discusses the steps that need to be taken in order to fully understand team disruption and design efficient mechanisms to disrupt teams. In order to answer the high-level question of how to disrupt teams, a few other questions need to be tackled first: what is a disrupted team? What are the crucial elements that make a collection of agents function as a team? Can norms, incentives or other mechanisms be used to disrupt these elements? How would we evaluate their efficiency? We first present the ideas of team and team disruption and motivate the need for these concepts to be properly defined. Secondly, we introduce an idea of team-disruption mechanism that we will further investigate. Lastly, we provide a long-term perspective and identify contributions that our research will make in the multi-agents field.

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Andrada Voinitchi, Elizabeth Black, and Michael Luck. Introduction to Team Disruption Mechanisms. In 2012 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 28, pp. 149-155, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@InProceedings{voinitchi_et_al:OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.149,
  author =	{Voinitchi, Andrada and Black, Elizabeth and Luck, Michael},
  title =	{{Introduction to Team Disruption Mechanisms}},
  booktitle =	{2012 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop},
  pages =	{149--155},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-48-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{28},
  editor =	{Jones, Andrew V.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.149},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-37792},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2012.149},
  annote =	{Keywords: Team disruption, multi-agent systems, organisations, teams, goals}
}

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