[agents] Call For Participation: AAMAS-08 Tutorial on Decision-Making in Extended Multiagent Interactions

[Zinovi Rabinovich]

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			  AAMAS-08 Tutorial
				  on
	 Decision-Making in Extended Multiagent Interactions
				(DEMI)

			  Estoril, Portugal,
			    May 12-13 2008
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This half-day tutorial deals with time-extended decision making in
multi-agent systems. Drawing motivation from the search and rescue
applications in disaster management, the tutorial will span the range
of multiagent interactions of increasing generality, and study a set
of optimal and approximate solution techniques to decision making in
these contexts. The tutorial will be self-contained, introducing the
relevant background literature such as aspects of game theory. The
tutorial will present models and solution techniques based both on
game and decision theoretic concepts.

The list of topics includes:

* Requirements for the multiagent decision model and solution

* Game theory background
  -- Repeated strategic and Bayesian games
  -- Iterative solution methods (e.g. fictitious play)

* Multi-agent stochastic (Markov) games
  -- Decentralised Markov decision processes (DEC-MDPs)
  -- Model specializations

* Partially observable stochastic games (POSGs)
  -- Stigmergic solution with perceptual control (Multi-agent EMT)
  -- Partially observable Dec-MDPs (DEC-POMDPs)
  -- Interactive POMDPs (I-POMDPs)

Please register for the tutorial before the early registration deadline,
which will be toward the end of February! Registration
information will be available soon at
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/registration.html

Sincerely,

DEMI Organizing Committee

Prashant Doshi and Zinovi Rabinovich