Viorel Silaghi

Viorel Silaghi, Zobaida Alssadi, Ben Mathew et al.

Public availability of Artificial Intelligence generated information can change the markets forever, and its factoring into economical dynamics may take economists by surprise, out-dating models and schools of thought. Real estate hyper-inflation is not a new phenomenon but its consistent and almost monotonous persistence over 12 years, coinciding with prominence of public estimation information from Zillow, a successful Mass Real Estate Estimator (MREE), could not escape unobserved. What we model is a repetitive theoretical game between the MREE and the home owners, where each player has secret information and expertise. If the intention is to keep housing affordable and maintain old American lifestyle with broad home-ownership, new challenges are defined. Simulations show that a simple restriction of MREE-style price estimation availability to opt-in properties may help partially reduce feedback loop by acting on its likely causes, as suggested by experimental simulation models. The conjecture that the MREE pressure on real estate inflation rate is correlated with the absolute MREE estimation errors, which is logically explainable, is then validated in simulations.

Viorel D. Silaghi, Marius C. Silaghi, René Mandiau

Here we identify a type of privacy concern in Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOPs) not previously addressed in literature, despite its importance and impact on the application field: the privacy of existence of secrets. Science only starts where metrics and assumptions are clearly defined. The area of Distributed Constraint Optimization has emerged at the intersection of the multi-agent system community and constraint programming. For the multi-agent community, the constraint optimization problems are an elegant way to express many of the problems occurring in trading and distributed robotics. For the theoretical constraint programming community the DCOPs are a natural extension of their main object of study, the constraint satisfaction problem. As such, the understanding of the DCOP framework has been refined with the needs of the two communities, but sometimes without spelling the new assumptions formally and therefore making it difficult to compare techniques. Here we give a direction to the efforts for structuring concepts in this area.