18-879: AGENTS AND DISTRIBUTED DECISION PROCESSES

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From: Kurt Larsen
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18-879:  AGENTS AND DISTRIBUTED DECISION PROCESSES
Spring, 2001
9 or 12 units
Instructor: Sarosh Talukdar
Time: to be decided

Large, widely distributed systems, such as traffic networks,
telecommunication networks and the electric grid, are operated by thousands,
sometimes millions, of agents (decision-makers, such as relays, optimization
programs and humans). This course will cover the processes by which these
agents make decisions. Topics include: agent types, case-studies of large
systems,  game theory, the dynamics of decision-making (attractors, Nash
equilibria, Pareto optimality), organization theory, and heuristics for
improving the speed and quality of distributed decisions. All participants
will be assigned seminal papers to read and present in class. In addition,
participants taking the class for 12 units, will be assigned simple but
important decision problems that they will be expected to tackle as
projects.

Prerequisites: graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

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From: "Kurt Larsen" <klarsen@ece.cmu.edu>
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