Title : 
Distributed Planning in Stochastic Games with Communication
         
        
            Author : 
Burkov, Andriy ; Chaib-Draa, Brahim
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
DAMAS Lab., Laval Univ., Quebec City, QC, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper treats the problem of distributed planning in general-sum stochastic games with communication when the model is known. Our main contribution is a novel, game theoretic approach to the problem of distributed equilibrium computation and selection. We show theoretically and via experiments that our approach, when adopted by all agents, facilitates an efficient distributed equilibrium computation and leads to a unique equilibrium selection in general-sum stochastic games with communication.
         
        
            Keywords : 
distributed algorithms; planning (artificial intelligence); stochastic games; distributed equilibrium computation; distributed planning; stochastic game; Context modeling; Distributed computing; Game theory; Laboratories; Machine learning; Nash equilibrium; Process planning; Stochastic processes; Adaptive play; Game theory; Multiagent planning; Stochastic games;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Machine Learning and Applications, 2008. ICMLA '08. Seventh International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Diego, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-3495-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICMLA.2008.56