Decision Making in Multiagent Systems

AAMAS-2010 Tutorial
on
Decision Making in Multiagent Systems

Call for Participation

Toronto, Canada,
May 10-14 2010

We are glad to invite you to participate in the Decision Making in Multiagent Systems Tutorial, that brings together two very successful tutorial from previous years: the DEMI Tutorial from AAMAS-09 and the Decision Theoretic Planning Tutorial from IJCAI-09.

This full-day tutorial deals with time-extended decision making in multi-agent systems. Drawing motivation, in part, 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 time-extended decision making in both noncooperative and cooperative multiagent contexts. This self-contained tutorial will begin with the relevant portions of game theory and culminate with several advanced decision-theoretic models of agent interactions.

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)

* Partially observable stochastic games (POSGs)
  -- Basics of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partial Observability (POMDPs)
  -- Decentralised Formulation of MDPs (Dec-MDPs)
  -- Interactive POMDPs (I-POMDPs)

* Uncertainty utilization
  -- Targeted trajectory distributions (TTD-MDP)
  -- Stigmergic solution with perceptual control (Multi-agent EMT)

* Team decision making in Dec-MDP models
  -- Decision theoretic view of Dec-MDPs
  -- Computational and structural analysis of Dec-MDP models
  -- Optimal and approximate algorithm design for Dec-MDPs

All tutorial materials will be made available on-line at
http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~mtjspaan/tutorialDMMS/

Registration information will be available soon at
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php?content=registration

Sincerely,

Tutorial Organizing Committee

Prashant Doshi, Zinovi Rabinovich, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Matthijs Spaan, Shlomo Zilberstein, Christopher Amato