Direct training of selected individuals as disseminating farmers (DFs) can help to implement
a farmer to farmer extension approach. This study systematically examines the relationship …

Well-functioning fish seed systems are crucial for human nutrition and improved livelihoods.
Yet fish seed systems have received considerably little attention in the diffusion process for …

This work studies sequential social learning (also known as Bayesian observational
learning), and how private communication can enable agents to avoid herding to the wrong …

Social learning refers to the process by which networked strategic agents learn an unknown
state of the world by observing private state-related signals as well as other agents' actions …

We show that a firm may benefit from strategically creating scarcity for its product, in order to
trigger herding behaviour from consumers in situations where such behaviour is otherwise …

Multi-agent decision making is an essential task in various fields across communication
networks, energy communities, autonomous driving, and more. Agents in these settings …

This paper shows that a rm may benefit from restricting capacity so as to trigger herding
behavior from consumers, in situations where such behavior is otherwise unlikely. We …

This thesis examines the effect of incentives on the diffusion of agricultural technologies
through social learning, and evaluates the subsequent impacts of adoption on yield and …

This paper examines the effects of uncertainty of a forecast variable on forecast dispersion in
regard to stock recommendations. When forecasters truthfully report their expectations of a …

Inferring the information structure of other agents is necessary to derive optimal
mechanisms/signaling strategies in games with communications. However, in many real …