Between MDPs and semi-MDPs: a framework for temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning
Artificial Intelligence
The Complexity of Decentralized Control of Markov Decision Processes
Mathematics of Operations Research
Learning Options in Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Automated organization design for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Using quantitative models to search for appropriate organizational designs
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Social reward shaping in the prisoner's dilemma
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Efficient solution algorithms for factored MDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Communication-based decomposition mechanisms for decentralized MDPs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Formalizing organizational constraints: a semantic approach
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Distributed model shaping for scaling to decentralized POMDPs with hundreds of agents
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
A decision-theoretic characterization of organizational influences
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
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Recent research has shown how an organization can influence a decision-theoretic agent by replacing one or more of its model components (transition/reward functions, action/state spaces, etc.), and how each of these influences impacts the agent's decision-making performance. This paper delves more precisely into exactly which parts of an agent's model should be organizationally influenced, and asserts a broader principle for delineating what aspects of an agent's behavior an organization should be sanctioned to influence. We present a formal framework for specifying factored organizational influences and incorporating them into agents' decision models, and empirically demonstrate that organizational specifications based on our proposed principle outperform the alternatives. We further describe an algorithm for automating the organizational-design process that is inspired by this principle, and demonstrate empirically that its organizational designs are both intuitively sensible and also find and exploit domain structure that our hand-generated designs miss.