Strategic Binary Choice Models with Partial Observability

Timed Control with Partial Observability

We consider the problem of synthesizing controllers for timed systems modeled using timed automata. The point of departure from earlier work is that we consider controllers that have only a partial observation of the system that it controls. In discrete event systems (where continuous time is not modeled), it is well known how to handle partial observability, and decidability issues do not diff...

11688 Models of Strategic Choice in Politics

Strategic decentralization in binary choice composite congestion games

This paper studies strategic decentralization in binary choice composite network congestion games. A player decentralizes if she lets some autonomous agents to decide respectively how to send different parts of her stock from the origin to the destination. This paper shows that, with convex, strictly increasing and differentiable arc cost functions, an atomic splittable player always has an opt...

Two-Stage Partial Observability Models of Innovation Adoption

Many theories on the adoption and diffusion of innovations posit that adoption is the outcome of a decision process. A two-stage conception of that process involving an awareness stage followed by a stage combining evaluation and adoption seems particularly useful. Several empirical studies indicate that the effect of mass media and change agents is relatively concentrated in creating awareness...

Planning with Extended Goals and Partial Observability

Planning in nondeterministic domains with temporally extended goals under partial observability is one of the most challenging problems in planning. Simpler subsets of this problem have been already addressed in the literature, but the general combination of extended goals and partial observability is, to the best of our knowledge, still an open problem. In this paper we present a first attempt...