Multi-agent learning and the descriptive value of simple models

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 171, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 423-428

  Erev, Ido ^a   Roth, Alvin E ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivalent Number of Observations (ENO); Fictitious play; Reciprocation; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS (ENO); FICTITIOUS PLAY; RECIPROCATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34249092934     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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