Abstract A Decentralized Denial of Service is an attack done by an agent capable to control
the spread of a malware. This is a combination of epidemiological and conflictual aspects …

The personalization of our news consumption on social media has a tendency to reinforce
our pre-existing beliefs instead of balancing our opinions. To tackle this issue, Garimella et …

Abstract Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) systems are witnessing an upswing in applications within
multi-agent distributed environments, leading to the advancement of collaborative MAB …

Actor-critic algorithms have shown remarkable success in solving state-of-the-art decision-
making problems. However, despite their empirical effectiveness, their theoretical …

Social science NLP tasks, such as emotion or humor detection, are required to capture the
semantics along with the implicit pragmatics from text, often with limited amounts of training …

Abstract Information diffusion in social networks is a well-studied concept in social choice
theory. We propose the study of the diffusion of two secrets in a heterogeneous environment …

Viral marketing is the modern version of the old “word-of-mouth” advertising, where
companies choose a restricted number of persons, considered “influential,” recommending …

It is widely believed that the adoption behavior of a decision-maker in a social network is
related to the number of signals it receives from its peers in the social network. It is unclear if …

Humans live among other humans, not in isolation. Therefore, the ability to learn and
behave in multi-agent environments is essential for any autonomous system that intends to …

The social media have been increasingly used for disaster management (DM) via providing
real time data on a broad scale. For example, some smartphone applications (eg Disaster …