With the growing shift towards news consumption primarily through social media sites like Twitter, most of the traditional as well as new-age media houses are promoting their news stories by tweeting about them. The competition for user attention in such mediums has led many media houses to use...

Team-competition in multi-agent games is an important setting, where multi-agent actor-critic methods are the state-of-the-art methods. In many such scenarios, the roles for players naturally emerge, thus aiding in collaboration within the teams. However, exiting methods for the team-competition...

With air pollution growing at an alarming rate, it is becoming necessary to quantify correctly the level of toxicity in the air. The novelty in our system relies on a cheap, affordable and quick measuring index for the air quality around us. It uses a portable battery powered hub based on an...

We analyse the quality (informativeness and efficiency) of advice obtained from a committee of careerist experts where voting is secret but voting profiles are 'leaked' with an exogenously given probability. We show that fully informative voting is generically possible only when the common prior...

Can public mood swings that make all voters undergo an ideological shift towards a policy, hurt the electoral performance of that policy? The answer depends interestingly on the operations of an apolitical, viewership-maximizing dominant media. The media chooses news quality about fundamental...

We provide a stylised model that shows that having a multi-party setup in a democratic system comprising of a centre and state governments may lead to an aggregative inefficiency. The inefficiency is contingent on the existence of a sufficiently large number of regional parties that promotes a...