Parisa Abdolrezapour, Nasim Ghanbari
Emotional-based pedagogy and facilitating EFL learners' perceived flow in online education
Frontiers in psychology
many multiagent systems single coordinator providing incentives large number agents two challenges faced coordinator finite budget allocate incentives initial lack knowledge utility function agents present behavioral analytics approach solving coordinators problem agents make decisions maximizing utility functions depend prior system states inputs parameters initially unknown behavioral analytics framework involves three steps first develop model describes decisionmaking process agent second use data estimate model parameters agent predict future decisions third use predictions optimize set incentives provided agent framework approaches propose paper adapt incentives new information collected furthermore prove incentives computed approach asymptotically optimal respect loss function describes coordinators objective optimize incentives decomposition scheme subproblem solves coordinators problem single agent master problem pure integer program conclude simulation study evaluate effectiveness approach designing personalized weight loss program results show approach maintains efficacy program reducing costs 60 adaptive heuristics provide substantially less savings