Stefano V. Albrecht

About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where I am a member of the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour and supervised by Dr. Subramanian Ramamoorthy. Prior to this, I received a M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Technische Universität Darmstadt. I was awarded a Ph.D. fellowship by the German National Academic Foundation.

My research interests include single-agent learning, multi-agent learning, and game theory. In my own research, I focus on the problem of ad hoc coordination in multiagent systems. Therein, the problem is to design a single agent, called the ad hoc agent, which is able to achieve optimal flexibility and efficiency in a multiagent system that admits no prior coordination between the ad hoc agent and the other agents in the system. See here for a brief description of my work.

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Publications

• S.V. Albrecht, S. Ramamoorthy. A Game-theoretic Model and Best-response Learning Method for Ad Hoc Coordination in Multiagent Systems (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 2013.
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• S.V. Albrecht. Ad Hoc Coordination in Multiagent Systems with Applications to Human-Machine Interaction (Doctoral Consortium). In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 2013.
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• S.V. Albrecht, S. Ramamoorthy. Comparative Evaluation of MAL Algorithms in a Diverse Set of Ad Hoc Team Problems. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Valencia, Spain, June 2012.
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Technical Reports

• S.V. Albrecht, S. Ramamoorthy. A Game-theoretic Model and Best-response Learning Method for Ad Hoc Coordination in Multiagent Systems. Technical Report, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, February 2013.
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• S.V. Albrecht, S. Ramamoorthy. Exploiting Causality in the Monitoring Task of POMDP. Technical Report, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, February 2013.
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Invited Talks

• S.V. Albrecht, S. Ramamoorthy. Automated Agents in Financial Markets and the Problem of Ad Hoc Coordination in Heterogeneous Competitive Agent Populations. Invited Talk at Thomson Reuters, Eagan, Minnesota, USA, 7th May 2013.
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