Publications related to Homo economicus

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Breaking Blockchain Rationality with Out-of-Band Collusion

Bryan Alexander Ford, Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes, Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino, Haoqian Zhang

Blockchain systems often rely on rationality assumptions for their security, expecting that nodes are motivated to maximize their profits. These systems thus design their protocols to incentivize nodes to execute the honest protocol but fail to consider ou ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2024

Origin of the Activity Trend in the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethanol over VOx/CeO2

Oliver Kröcher, Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid, Olga Safonova, Anna Zabilska

Supported vanadia (VOx) is a versatile catalyst for various redox processes where ceria-supported VOx have shown to be particularly active in the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of alcohols. In this work, we clarify the origin of the volcano-shaped ethanol ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Courtesy As a Means to Coordinate

Boi Faltings, Panayiotis Danassis

We investigate the problem of multi-agent coordination under rationality constraints. Specifically, role allocation, task assignment, resource allocation, etc. Inspired by human behavior, we propose a framework (CA^3NONY) that enables fast convergence to e ...

International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems2019

Data-Driven Inverse Optimization with Incomplete Information

Daniel Kuhn, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Grani Adiwena Hanasusanto

In data-driven inverse optimization an observer aims to learn the preferences of an agent who solves a parametric optimization problem depending on an exogenous signal. Thus, the observer seeks the agent's objective function that best explains a historical ...

2018

Incentives for Subjective Evaluations with Private Beliefs

Boi Faltings, Goran Radanovic

The modern web critically depends on aggregation of information from self-interested agents, for example opinion polls, product ratings, or crowdsourcing. We consider a setting where multiple objects (questions, products, tasks) are evaluated by a group of ...

2015

Incentive Mechanisms for Community Sensing

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Jingshi Li

Sensing and monitoring of our natural environment are important for sustainability. As sensor systems grow to a large scale, it will become infeasible to place all sensors under centralized control. We investigate community sensing, where sensors are contr ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

A Robust Bayesian Truth Serum for Non-binary Signals

Boi Faltings, Goran Radanovic

Several mechanisms have been proposed for incentivizing truthful reports of a private signals owned by rational agents, among them the peer prediction method and the Bayesian truth serum. The robust Bayesian truth serum (RBTS) for small populations and bin ...

2013

Analyzing the Emergence of Semantic Agreement among Rational Agents

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós

Todays complex online applications often require the interaction of multiple services that potentially belong to different business entities. Interoperability is a core element of such an environment, yet not a straightforward one. In this paper, we argue ...

IEEE Computer Society2011

Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments

Karl Aberer

Computational reputation-based trust models using statistical learning have been intensively studied for distributed systems where peers behave maliciously. However practical applications of such models in environments with both malicious and rational beha ...

2011

Elicitation and Modeling of Operational Human Decision Making in a Supply Chain Context : a Study Based on Participatory Simulation

Souleïman Naciri

Supply chains (SC) are complex systems in which human beings play a key role. Whereas human impact is often taken into account in simulation models in terms of physical flows (material handling, fabrication), it is far less the case in terms of information ...

EPFL2010

Essays on individual decision making under uncertainty

This research project is an experimental study of decision-making in very difficult contexts resembling those encountered in financial markets. The starting point was the empirical observation that financial assets are objects of a very complex kind. Speci ...

EPFL2009

Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments

Karl Aberer

Reputation-based trust models using statistical learning have been intensively studied for distributed systems where peers behave maliciously. However practical applications of such models in environments with both malicious and rational behaviors are stil ...

2008

The Complex Facets of Reputation and Trust

Karl Aberer, Zoran Despotovic, Wojciech Galuba

Trust and reputation systems have proven to be essential to enforcing cooperative behavior in peer-to-peer networks. We briefly describe the current approaches to building reputation systems: social networks formation, probabilistic estimation and game the ...

Springer2006

Estimation of value of travel-time savings using Mixed Logit models

Michel Bierlaire

In this paper, we discuss some of the issues that arise with the computation of the implied value of travel-time savings in the case of discrete choice models allowing for random taste heterogeneity. We specifically look at the case of models producing a n ...

2005