Complex systems often exhibit emergent behaviour, unexpected macro-level behaviour
caused by the interaction of micro-level components. In multiagent systems, these micro …

Game theoretic views of convention generally rest on notions of common knowledge and
hyper-rational models of individual behavior. However, decades of work in behavioral …

Social norms play a pivotal role in sustaining social order by regulating individual behaviors
in a society. In normative multiagent systems, social norms have been used as an efficient …

Social norms such as social rules and conventions play a pivotal role in sustaining system
order by regulating and controlling individual behaviors toward a global consensus in large …

We envision a world in which robots serve as capable partners in heterogeneous teams
composed of other robots or humans. A crucial step towards such a world is enabling robots …

The problem of maximizing information diffusion, given a certain budget expressed in terms
of the number of seed nodes, is an important topic in social networks research. Existing …

The field of convention emergence studies how agents involved in repeated coordination
games can reach consensus through only local interactions. The literature on this topic is …

We study the situation of an exogenous decisionmaker aiming to encourage a population of
autonomous, self-regarding agents to follow a desired behaviour at a minimal cost. The …

The design of mechanisms that encourage pro-social behaviours in populations of self-
regarding agents is recognised as a major theoretical challenge within several areas of …

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have gained relevance in the field of artificial intelligence by
offering tools for modelling complex environments where autonomous agents interact to …