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Using Decision-Theoretic Planning Agents in Market-Based Systems

2002· article· en· W1484431903 on OpenAlexaff
Michael Brydon

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicAuction Theory and Applications
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceState spaceRationalityDecision problemMathematical optimizationResource allocationOperations researchMathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper examines a number of theoretical and practical issues concerning the use of decision-theoretic planning to implement agents in market-based systems. The markets considered here result from the decomposition of complex, intra-organizationai resource allocation problems such as manufacturing scheduling. Although these problems can be formulated as monolithic optimization problems, they tend to be much too large to solve in practice. Markets provide a means of decomposing large resource allocation problems and distributing the computation of a solution over many processors. An important precondition of efficient markets is agent-level rationality. Decision theoretic planning can be used to implement economic rationality and thus decision theoretic planning agents fit well into market-based approaches. The primary challenge in building decision theoretic planning agents is the size of the agent’s state space. Although marketbased decomposition results in agent-level problems that are much smaller than the original resource allocation problem, the price mechanism used to achieve independence of the agent-level problems requires that the agents plan over a large number of different resource contingencies. This requirement exacerbates the state space explosion that characterizes decision-theoretic planning. The application of state space reduction techniques such as structured dynamic programming and reachability analysis are shown to yield significant reductions in the effective size of the agent-level problems and thereby increase the applicability of decision theoretic planning techniques in market-based systems. 1

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.721
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.320
GPT teacher head0.440
Teacher spread0.121 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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