Empirical Game Theoretic Analysis: A Survey

MP Wellman, K Tuyls, A Greenwald - Journal of Artificial Intelligence …, 2025 - jair.org
In the empirical approach to game-theoretic analysis (EGTA), the model of the game comes
not from declarative representation, but is derived by interrogation of a procedural …

Evolutionary mechanism design: a review

S Phelps, P McBurney, S Parsons - Autonomous agents and multi-agent …, 2010 - Springer
The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In
open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of all of the …

Competitive benchmarking

W Ketter, M Peters, J Collins, A Gupta - MIS quarterly, 2016 - JSTOR
Wicked problems like sustainable energy and financial market stability are societal
challenges that arise from complex sociotechnical systems in which numerous social …

Re-evaluating evaluation

D Balduzzi, K Tuyls, J Perolat… - Advances in Neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Progress in machine learning is measured by careful evaluation on problems of outstanding
common interest. However, the proliferation of benchmark suites and environments …

[KNIHA][B] Autonomous bidding agents: Strategies and lessons from the trading agent competition

MP Wellman, A Greenwald, P Stone - 2007 - books.google.com
E-commerce increasingly provides opportunities for autonomous bidding agents: computer
programs that bid in electronic markets without direct human intervention. Automated …

Combining tree-search, generative models, and Nash bargaining concepts in game-theoretic reinforcement learning

Z Li, M Lanctot, KR McKee, L Marris, I Gemp… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) has benefited significantly from population-based
and game-theoretic training regimes. One approach, Policy-Space Response Oracles …

Using gaussian processes to optimise concession in complex negotiations against unknown opponents

CR Williams, V Robu, EH Gerding… - 22nd International Joint …, 2011 - research.tue.nl
In multi-issue automated negotiation against unknown opponents, a key part of effective
negotiation is the choice of concession strategy. In this paper, we develop a principled …

Real-time tactical and strategic sales management for intelligent agents guided by economic regimes

W Ketter, J Collins, M Gini, A Gupta… - Information Systems …, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
Many enterprises that participate in dynamic markets need to make product pricing and
inventory resource utilization decisions in real time. We describe a family of statistical …

A meta-game evaluation framework for deep multiagent reinforcement learning

Z Li, MP Wellman - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.00243, 2024 - arxiv.org
Evaluating deep multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms is complicated by
stochasticity in training and sensitivity of agent performance to the behavior of other agents …

Sample-based approximation of Nash in large many-player games via gradient descent

I Gemp, R Savani, M Lanctot, Y Bachrach… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Nash equilibrium is a central concept in game theory. Several Nash solvers exist, yet none
scale to normal-form games with many actions and many players, especially those with …