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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent systems Summary of the concepts February 24, 2017 Contents 1 Formal framework 3 1.1 Model of the environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Model of the agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2.1 Operative formalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Markov Decision Processes 5 2.1 Bellman Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Value-Iteration algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Partially observable MDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 Multiagent MDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 Model of the knowledge 7 4 Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving 8 4.1 Problem decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1.1 Contract Net protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2 Sub-problem solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3 Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3.1 Filtering and Asynchronous backtracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 Games and Game Theory 11 5.1 Normal form strategic games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.1.1 Solution concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1.2 Search for Nash equilibria: Best response dynamics algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1.3 Search for Nash equilibria: mixed…

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