Strategic Interactions in Multiagent Systems

自利或竞争的多代理系统是多个代理交互的环境，同时可能具有不同的目标和信息。这些系统中的一些关键问题是i)代理应该如何以及何时协调他们的行动和决策，以及ii)如何设计协议来处理代理的自身利益并实现系统范围内所希望的目标。自利的多智能体系统的例子比比皆是，从投票到博弈，来自多智能体系统研究社区的想法在从港口安全到智能电网的各种应用中都产生了重大影响。

Self-interested, or competitive, multiagent systems are settings where multiple agents interact while potentially having different goals and information. Some of the key issues in these systems are i) how and when should agents coordinate their actions and decisions and ii) how to design protocols to handle the agents' self-interest and achieve system-wide desirable goals. Examples of self-interested multiagent systems abound, ranging from voting to game-playing, and ideas from the multiagent systems research community have had significant impact in applications ranging from port security to the Smart Grid.