DocumentCode
1991326
Title
No free lunches in multi-agent systems,-a characteristic distribution approach to game theoretic modelling
Author
Johansson, Stefan J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Software Eng. & Comput. Sci., Blekinge Inst. of Technol., Ronneby, Sweden
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
246
Lastpage
250
Abstract
We introduce the notion of Characteristic Distributions which is a way of representing information about the payoffs of different behaviors in a Multi-agent System. We discuss how they can be used to simplify and structure the analysis of strategies and prove i) the existence of optimal environments, given a certain behavior, and ii) that all behaviors payoff equally, when taken over all possible environments (no free lunch theorem for strategies)
Keywords
game theory; multi-agent systems; evolutionary game theory; iterated games; multi-agent system; no free lunch theorem; repeated games; strategic games; Computer science; Game theory; History; Multiagent systems; Software engineering;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 2001. ICCIMA 2001. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Yokusika City
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1312-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCIMA.2001.970474
Filename
970474
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