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An Analysis of Majority Systems with Dependent Agents in a Simple Subtraction Game

verfasst von : Raphael Thiele, Ingo Althöfer

Erschienen in: Computers and Games

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

It is common knowledge that a majority system is typically better than its components, when the components are stochastically independent. However, in practice the independency assumption is often not justified. We investigate systems of experts which are constituted by couples of dependent agents. Based on recent theoretical work we analyse their performance in a simple 2-player subtraction game. It turns out that systems with negatively correlated couples perform better than those with positive correlation within the couples. From computer chess practice it was at least known that systems of very positively correlated bots were not too successful.

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Metadaten
Titel
An Analysis of Majority Systems with Dependent Agents in a Simple Subtraction Game
verfasst von
Raphael Thiele
Ingo Althöfer
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50935-8_19