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Algorithmic mechanism design
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Economics, game theory in multi-agent systems
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Coordination and cooperation in multi-agent systems
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Survivability and reliability of multi-agent systems
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Algorithms
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Multi-agent planning
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| Game theory and Economics in Multi-agent Systems |
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Bart de Keijzer, Tomas Klos and Yingqian Zhang. Enumeration and exact design of weighted voting games. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), ACM, 2010. To appear
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Yingqian Zhang and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Creating Incentives to Prevent Intentional Execution Failures. Proceedings of the 2009
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology,
pages 431-434, IEEE, 2009.
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Bart de Keijzer and Sylvain Bouveret and Tomas Klos and Yingqian Zhang (2009). On the complexity of efficiency and envy-freeness in fair division of
indivisible goods with additive preferences. In Francesca Rossi and Alexis Tsoukias (Eds.). Algorithmic Decision Theory, pp. 98--110. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 5783, Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04428-1_9
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Mengxiao Wu and Mathijs M. de Weerdt and Han La Poutre and Chetan Yadati and Yingqian Zhang and Cees Witteveen (2009). Multi-player Multi-issue Negotiation with Complete Information. In Proceedings of the ACAN. 2009 [download, bibtex] |
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Yingqian Zhang and Mathijs M. de Weerdt (2009). Creating incentives to prevent execution failures: an extension of VCG mechanism. In Juergen Dix and Edmund H. Durfee and Cees Witteveen (Eds.). Planning in Multiagent Systems. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. ISBN:1862-4405. 2009 [download, bibtex] |
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Roman P.J. van der Krogt and Mathijs M. de Weerdt and Yingqian Zhang. Of Mechanism Design and Multiagent Planning. In Proceedings of
the 20th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008). [download,
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Roman P.J. van der Krogt and Mathijs M. de Weerdt and Yingqian Zhang. Of Mechanism Design and Multiagent Planning. In Proceedings of
the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-08), pp. 423-427, IOS Press, 2008. ISBN:978-1-58603-891-5.
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Mathijs M. de Weerdt and Yingqian Zhang. Preventing Under-Reporting in Social Task Allocation. In Han La Poutre and Onn Shehory (Eds.). Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC-X). IFAAMAS, 2008.
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Yingqian Zhang and Mathijs M. de Weerdt . VCG-based Truthful Mechanisms for Social Task Allocation. In Proceedings of the Fifth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS-07), pp. 378-394, 2007.
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| Multi-agent Coordination and Cooperation |
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Chetan Yadati, Cees Witteveen and Yingqian Zhang.
COORDINATING AGENTS: An analysis of coordination in supply-chain
management like tasks. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference
on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
(ICAART). 2010. To appear.
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Chetan Yadati, Cees Witteveen and Yingqian Zhang.
Plan coordination in Hospital Patient treatment. In Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2009. LNCS.
To appear.
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Adriaan ter Mors, Chetan Yadati, Cees Witteveen,
and Yingqian Zhang. Coordination by Design and the Price of Autonomy.
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. Volume 20, Issue 3
(2010), Page 308--341. 2010.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-009-9086-9 [download,
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Chetan Yadati, Cees Witteveen, Yingqian Zhang, Mengaxiao Wu and Han la Poutre. Autonomous Scheduling with unbounded and bounded agents.
In Proceedings of the 20th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008).
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J. Renze Steenhuisen, Cees Witteveen, and Yingqian Zhang. Plancoordination
mechanisms and the price of autonomy. In Fariba Sadri and
Ken Satoh, editors, Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, volume
5056 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1--21. Springer Berlin /
Heidelberg, 2008.
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Chetan Yadati, Cees Witteveen, Yingqian Zhang, Mengaxiao Wu and Han la Poutre. Autonomous Scheduling with unbounded and bounded agents.
IN proceedings of the sixth German Conference on Multi-Agent system Technologies (MATES). pp. 195-206. Springer-Verlag, 2008.
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Chetan Yadati, Cees Witteveen, Yingqian Zhang, Mengxiao Wu, and Han la Poutre. Autonomous Scheduling. In Proceedings of The 2008
International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS08). pp73--79. CSREA Press, 2008.
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Mathijs M. de Weerdt, Yingqian Zhang, and Tomas B. Klos. Distributed Task Allocation in Social Networks. In Michael Huhns and Onn Shehory (Eds.). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS07), pp. 488-495. Research Publishing Services. 2007.
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J. Renze Steenhuisen, Cees Witteveen and Yingqian Zhang. Plan-Coordination Mechanisms and the Price of Autonomy. In Fariba Sadri and
Ken Satoh (Eds.) Proceedings CLIMA VIII. Springer, 2007.
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Mathijs M. de Weerdt and Yingqian Zhang and Tomas B. Klos. Distributed Task Allocation in Social Networks. In Mehdi Dastani and Edwin de Jong (Eds.). Proceedings of the 19th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2007), pp. 419--420, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2007
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| Fault Tolerance and Reliability of Multi-agent Systems |
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Yingqian Zhang, Efrat Manisterski, Sarit Kraus, V.S. Subrahmanian, David
Peleg. Computing the Fault Tolerance of Multi-agent
Deployment. Artificial Intelligence journal, 173(3-4):437-465, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2008.11.007
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Yingqian Zhang. Making Multiagent Systems More Reliable. PhD thesis. The University of Manchester, UK, 2005.
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Yingqian Zhang, Efrat Manister, Sarit Kraus, V.S. Subrahmanian, Approximation Results for Probabilistic Survivability. Proc. of the Second IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MAS&S 2005), Philadelphia, PA, pp. 1--10, IEEE Computer Society, 2005. ISBN: 0-7803-9447-X.
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Yingqian Zhang, Towards Fault Tolerance in MASs, The Fourth Internaltional Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS05), 1387, ACM. 2005.
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V. S. Subrahmanian, Sarit Kraus, Yingqian Zhang, Distributed Algorithms for Dynamic Survivability of Multiagent Systems. In Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, pp 1-15, LNCS 3259, Springer, 2004. ISBN 3-540-24010-1.
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Juergen Dix, Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Axel Polleres, Yingqian Zhang. Monitoring Agents using Declarative Planning. Fundamenta Informaticae, 57(2-4) : 345--370, 2003
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Juergen Dix, Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Axel Polleres, Yingqian Zhang, Monitoring Agents using Declarative Planning. KI 2003,
Advances in AI. A. Gunther, R. Kruse, B. Neumann (Eds.), LNCS 2821/2003, pp 646--660, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2003. ISBN 978-3-540-20059-8.
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| Modelling and Programming Multiagent Systems |
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Juergen Dix, Yingqian Zhang, IMPACT: A multi-agent framework with declarative semantics, In Multi-Agent Programming, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 69--94, 2005
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Juergen Dix, Michael Fisher, and Yingqian Zhang, editors, Logic-Based Programming of Multi-Agent Systems, Dagstuhl Seminar Report 361, IBFI GmbH, Schloss Dagstuhl, 2002
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| Machine Learning |
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Ying-Qian Zhang, ForeNet: Fourier Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction. Master thesis. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. 2002
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Lai-Wan Chan and Ying-Qian Zhang, Initialization of Recurrent Networks Using Fourier Analysis, In Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2001, Shanghai, P.R. China, 2001
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Ying-Qian Zhang and Lai-Wan Chan, ForeNet: Fourier Recurrent Networks for Time Series Prediction, In Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2000, Korea, pp 576--582, 2000
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Yingqian Zhang, Jiuqiu Feng and Hui Li, Application of Neural Network in the Prediction of China Stock Market. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Intelligent Data Engineering and Learning, Hong Kong (IDEAL'98), China, pp 179--185, 1998
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