[agents] Final 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 is March 7. Registration information is available at
 http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/registration.html


 DEMI Organizing Committee

Prashant Doshi and Zinovi Rabinovich