Tuesday, 28 May, 2019, 16:00 – 17:30, Room 4981
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Abstract:
Lecture Series, Part 3 : Case study on facility location games
Game theoretic perspectives have been adopted in various disciplines of engineering and are becoming important with the growing importance of multi- agent systems. Various problems within Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in particular those arising within communications, control theory and security can be conveniently viewed in a game theoretic setting – such as an adversary dropping packets in a communication channel, or an adversary introducing disturbances in a plant to be controlled. Hence, it is becoming important for engineering students and researchers to have an understanding of algorithmic game theory, which is not a part of a traditional engineering curriculum. This course will start by introducing basic concepts from game theory and will then discuss algorithmic techniques for efficiently computing strategies and equilibrium solutions in multi-party games. It is targeted towards doctoral candidates and researchers who are interested in applying game theory in their respective domains. No background in game theory or algorithms will be assumed.
Biography:
Minming Li is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science in City University of Hong Kong. He received his BSc and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Minming has been with City University of Hong Kong from September 2006.