Felix Fischer

Felix A. Fischer

Theoretical Computer Science
LMU Munich



PAMAS

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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the PAMAS group at LMU Munich. My research is concerned with computational aspects of game theory and social choice, and with strategic aspects of computation.

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Earlier publications on agent communication and autonomy are available upon request.

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Preprints
 
F. Brandt, M. Brill, F. Fischer, and P. Harrenstein. Minimal retentive sets in tournaments. 2009. Working paper.
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N. Alon, F. Fischer, A. D. Procaccia, and M. Tennenholtz. Sum of us: Strategyproof selection from the selectors. 2009. arXiv:0910.4699. Working paper.
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, P. Harrenstein, and M. Mair. A computational analysis of the tournament equilibrium set. Social Choice and Welfare, 2009. Forthcoming.
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D. Baumeister, F. Brandt, F. Fischer, J. Hoffmann, and J. Rothe. The complexity of computing minimal unidirectional covering sets. 2009. arXiv:0901.3692. Working paper.
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, and M. Holzer. On iterated dominance, matrix elimination, and matched paths. ECCC Report TR08-077, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC), 2008. Working paper.
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2009
 
F. Fischer. Complexity results for some classes of strategic games. Dissertation, Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2009.
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F. Brandt, M. Brill, F. Fischer, and J. Hoffmann. The computational complexity of weak saddles. In M. Mavronicolas and V. G. Papadopoulou, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), volume 5814 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 238–249. Springer-Verlag, 2009.
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F. Brandt, M. Brill, F. Fischer, and P. Harrenstein. On the complexity of iterated weak dominance in constant-sum games. In M. Mavronicolas and V. G. Papadopoulou, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), volume 5814 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 287–298. Springer-Verlag, 2009.
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F. Fischer, A. D. Procaccia, and A. Samorodnitsky. A new perspective on implementation by voting trees. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), 2009. Supersedes ”On Voting Caterpillars: Approximating Maximum Degree in a Tournament by Binary Trees”, Technical Report 2008-06, Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Also presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC).
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, and P. Harrenstein. The computational complexity of choice sets. Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 55(4):444–459, 2009. Earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK). Also presented at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC).
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F. Brandt, M. Brill, F. Fischer, and P. Harrenstein. Computational aspects of Shapley's saddles. In K. S. Decker and J. S. Sichman, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2009.
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, and M. Holzer. Symmetries and the complexity of pure Nash equilibrium. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 75(3):163–177, 2009. Earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS).
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, P. Harrenstein, and Y. Shoham. Ranking games. Artificial Intelligence, 173(2):221–239, 2009. Revised and extended version of the AAAI 2006 and IJCAI 2007 papers titled ”On Strictly Competitive Multi-Player Games” and ”A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Strictly Competitive Multiagent Scenarios”.
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2008
 
F. Brandt, F. Fischer, and M. Holzer. Equilibria of graphical games with symmetries. In C. H. Papadimitriou and S. Zhang, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 198–209. Springer-Verlag, 2008. Earlier version published as ECCC Report TR07-136.
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, P. Harrenstein, and M. Mair. A computational analysis of the tournament equilibrium set. In D. Fox and C. P. Gomes, editors, Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 38–43. AAAI Press, 2008. Supersedes ”Recognizing Members of the Tournament Equilibrium Set is NP-hard” by Brandt, Fischer, and Harrenstein, arXiv:0711.2961. Also presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC).
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F. Brandt and F. Fischer. Computing the minimal covering set. Mathematical Social Sciences, 56(2):254–268, 2008. Revised and extended version of a AAAI 2007 paper titled ”Computational Aspects of Covering in Dominance Graphs”, also presented at the 5th International Conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice (LGS).
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F. Brandt and F. Fischer. On the hardness and existence of quasi-strict equilibria. In B. Monien and U.-P. Schroeder, editors, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), volume 4997 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 291–302. Springer-Verlag, 2008.
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O. Dekel, F. Fischer, and A. D. Procaccia. Incentive compatible regression learning. In S.-H. Teng, editor, Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pages 884–893. SIAM, 2008. Earlier version presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Social Systems and the Internet and published as Leibniz Center Technical Report 2007-112.
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2007
 
F. Brandt and F. Fischer. PageRank as a weak tournament solution. In X. Deng and F. Chung Graham, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), volume 4858 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 300–305. Springer-Verlag, 2007.
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F. Brandt and F. Fischer. Computational aspects of covering in dominance graphs. In R. C. Holte and A. Howe, editors, Proceedings of the 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 694–699. AAAI Press, 2007. Also presented at the 5th International Conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice (LGS).
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, and P. Harrenstein. The computational complexity of choice sets. In D. Samet, editor, Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK), pages 82–91. ACM Press, 2007. Earlier version presented at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC).
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P. Harrenstein, F. Brandt, and F. Fischer. Commitment and extortion. In M. Huhns and O. Shehory, editors, Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), pages 108–115. ACM Press, 2007.
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, and M. Holzer. Symmetries and the complexity of pure Nash equilibrium. In W. Thomas and P. Weil, editors, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), volume 4393 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 212–223. Springer-Verlag, 2007. Earlier version presented at the 17th International Conference on Game Theory and published as ECCC Report TR06-091.
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F. Brandt, F. Fischer, P. Harrenstein, and Y. Shoham. A game-theoretic analysis of strictly competitive multiagent scenarios. In M. Veloso, editor, Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 1199–1206, 2007.
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2006
 
F. Brandt, F. Fischer, and Y. Shoham. On strictly competitive multi-player games. In Y. Gil and R. Mooney, editors, Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 605–612. AAAI Press, 2006. Also presented at the 17th International Conference on Game Theory.
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F. Fischer, M. Holzer, and S. Katzenbeisser. The influence of neighbourhood and choice on the complexity of finding pure Nash equilibria. Information Processing Letters, 99(6):239–245, 2006.
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Teaching move to top of page
(in German)
WS 09/10: Hauptseminar Multiagentensysteme
WS 08/09: Algorithmische Graphentheorie [Übung]
SS 07: Multiagentensysteme [Übung]
WS 06/07: Hauptseminar Multiagentensysteme
SS 06: Hauptseminar Spieltheorie
WS 05/06: Hauptseminar Spieltheorie, Proseminar UNIX Tools
SS 05: Praktikum Game Playing, Proseminar UNIX Tools
WS 04/05: Praktikum Game Playing
WS 02/03: Programmierpraktikum Methoden der künstlichen Intelligenz
SS 02: Einführung in die Informatik IV [Tutorübung]


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