A Concise Introduction to Decentralized POMDPs

This book introduces multiagent planning under uncertainty as formalized by decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs). The intended audience is researchers and graduate students working in the fields of artificial intellige

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SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems Artificial Intelligence, Multiagent Systems, and Cognitive Robotics

Series editors Gerhard Weiss, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Karl Tuyls, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Editorial Board Felix Brandt, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Wolfram Burgard, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Marco Dorigo, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Peter Flach, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Brian Gerkey, Open Source Robotics Foundation, Bristol, UK Nicholas R. Jennings, Southampton University, Southampton, UK Michael Luck, King’s College London, London, UK Simon Parsons, City University of New York, New York, US Henri Prade, IRIT, Toulouse, France Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Padua, Italy Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC Cerdanyola, Barcelona, Spain Milind Tambe, USC, Los Angeles, US Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

This series covers the entire research and application spectrum of intelligent systems, including artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, and cognitive robotics. Typical texts for publication in the series include, but are not limited to, state-of-the-art reviews, tutorials, summaries, introductions, surveys, and in-depth case and application studies of established or emerging fields and topics in the realm of computational intelligent systems. Essays exploring philosophical and societal issues raised by intelligent systems are also very welcome.

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Frans A. Oliehoek School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science University of Liverpool Liverpool UK

Christopher Amato Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT Cambridge, MA USA

ISSN 2196-548X ISSN 2196-5498 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems ISBN 978-3-319-28927-4 ISBN 978-3-319-28929-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28929-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016941071 © The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and th