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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Multi-Agent Decision Making
Journal of KI – Künstliche Intelligenz (Springer)
Special Issue on Multi-Agent Decision Making
Classical decision making is concerned with how rational agents make optimal decisions. In distributed decision making complex problems are divided into smaller ones and decisions are made in a distributed manner. Also, it often is the case that all involved decision makers are sharing—willingly or not—a global objective and that they are somewhat cooperative.
In general, this is not the case for multi-agent decision making which is concerned with self-interested agents pursuing their own objectives. Those objectives may be consistent but can just as well be completely contradicting; they can be publicly known or private. As a consequence, good decisions no longer only depend on the respective agent’s capabilities and the characteristics of the environment, but to a great extent on how other agents behave and on the interaction with them. In most settings these behaviors influence each other…