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Decision making in multi-agent settings is a complex exercise where agents have to handle incomplete knowledge of the complete problem. Agents are interdependent in multi-agent decision making, being subject to the decisions of other agents who bring to bear other qualitative and quantitative criteria. Some aspects of this problem have been addressed in the Distributed Constraint Optimisation Problems (DCOP) and Markov Decision Processes literature. Taking inspiration from a medical example, our...

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The choices we make constrain other choices. Certain combinations of decisions lead to better outcomes than other combinations of decisions. These observations hold in a large class of problem domains, but are especially compelling in policing and law enforcement. However, the problem of identifying the optimal choices has received relatively little attention in the literature. The nearest point of departure is the class of Distributed Constraint Optimisation Problems (DCOP), but these offer a l...