Social dilemmas, where mutual cooperation can lead to high payoffs but participants face incentives to cheat, are ubiquitous in multi-agent interaction. We wish to construct agents that cooperate with pure cooperators, avoid exploitation by pure defectors, and incentivize cooperation from the rest. However, often the actions taken by a partner are (partially) unobserved or the consequences of i...

Cooperation among agents has been the object of many recently published papers. Cooperation might be formulated and work in many forms, between different kinds of agents and situations in which they are situated. In addition, it is also influenced a lot by the agent’s intelligence, mutual relationships and the willingness to cooperate with other ones. The main focus of this paper is to solve th...

Due to its open protocol, the Internet has revolutionized computer networks, but this revolution brings new risks and threats. The best way to protect computer networks is to prevent attackers from intruding, using fast automated procedures. However, the current state of protection is insufficient, because providing for all attacks or preventing unknown types of attack is almost impossible, and...

Direct reciprocity, or repeated interaction, is a main mechanism to sustain cooperation under social dilemmas involving two individuals. For larger groups and networks, which are probably more relevant to understanding and engineering our society, experiments employing repeated multiplayer social dilemma games have suggested that humans often show conditional cooperation behavior and its moody ...

Multi-agent systems usually address one of two pure scenarios, completely competitive agents that act selfishly, each agent maximizing its own gain from the interaction or multiple agents that operate cooperatively in order to achieve a common goal. The present paper proposes a paradigm for multiple agents to solve a distributed problem, acting partly cooperatively and keeping a limited form of...

The advantage of a cross-nation R&D cooperative project for businesses is that such a project can integrate and combine the technological capabilities of different countries through global linking, so that they can exchange, learn, and transform knowledge, thus enhancing the quality of innovative products or technologies as well as speeding up their adoption. This study explores the impact of d...

The paper investigates the present state and prospects of development Belarusian market mutual lending, business model results activity KUBYSHKA crowdlending Internet platform, possibilities organizing cooperation between banks platforms, obstacles to for lending.

after the cold war and collapse of the bipolar system, the european :union: found more opportunity to play a role in regional and international arenas. on the other hand, russia was searching for a new status due to its widespread developments. changing the status of international system, emergence of new and powerful actors, expansion of the european :union: to the east and bordering with russ...

proper opportunity of the city of genoa, its cooperation during the crusades, and the evolution in the terms of trade organization and practices at the same time that mongol empire was establishing, formed a new round of intercontinental trade . the importance of commerce for the mongol continued as a tradition in ilkhanids. genoese commercial presence in eastern ports and the black sea and als...