Making and Keeping Probabilistic Commitments for Trustworthy Multiagent Coordination by Qi Zhang A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science and Engineering) in The University of Michigan 2020 Doctoral Committee: Professor Satinder Singh Baveja, Co-Chair Professor Edmund H. Durfee, Co-Chair Professor Richard L. Lewis Assistant Professor Arunesh Sinha Qi Zhang
[email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8562-5987 c Qi Zhang 2020 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost I would like to give my sincerest and warmest thanks to my co-advisors, Edmund Durfee and Satinder Singh, for their wisdom and patience in training me to become a researcher. They have also been extraordinarily supportive of my academic career after PhD. I was extremely lucky to be your student. I would like to give thanks to Rick Lewis, who served on my doctoral committee, for advising me on an early project that did not end up in this thesis but I am particularly proud of. I would like to thank Arunesh Sinha, who also served on my committee, for giving thoughtful feedback in my dissertation defense and writing. I would like to express my gratitude to Nan Jiang, Xiaoxiao Guo, Junhyuk Oh, Shun Zhang, Aditya Modi, Janarthanan Rajendran, Vivek Veeriah, John Holler, Max Smith, Zeyu Zheng, Ethan Brooks, Chris Grimm, Wilka Carvalho, Risto Vuorio, and other members in the RL lab, with whom I spent a wonderful time as a PhD student. In particular, I am thankful to Xiaoxiao who introduced me to IBM Research, where Murray Campbell hosted me as an intern.