Note that there is something due almost every week.
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Sept 3 |
Sept 4 First day of class |
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Sept 10 |
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Sept 17 |
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Sept 24 |
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Oct 1 |
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Oct 8 |
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Exam 1 |
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Oct 15 |
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Oct 22 |
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Oct 29 |
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Nov 5 |
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Nov 12 |
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Nov 19 |
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No Class -- Thanksgiving |
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No Class -- Virtual Friday |
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Nov 26 |
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Exam 2 |
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Dec 3 |
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Dec 10 |
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Lab 5: Satisficing |
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Dec 17 |
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DISCLAIMER:
I will adjust this schedule during the semester, so
don't think that this is set in stone. I'll announce changes to the
schedule in class, post them on the newsgroup, and highlight them in BOLD RED, so you should
be able to keep current.
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Resources |
Activity |
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Part 1: Choice when payoff matrix is known |
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Part 1: Solution Concepts |
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Sept 4 |
Framework for Multi-Agent Choice |
Online Notes (Framework) |
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Sept 6 |
Utilities & |
Online Notes
(Utility) |
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Sep 11 |
Solution Concepts
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Online
Notes (Solution Concepts) |
HW1: Annotated
Minimax Proof |
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Sep 13 |
Mixed Strategies
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Online
Notes (Mixed Strategies) |
HW2: Solution
Concepts |
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Part 2: Repeated Interactions |
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Sept 18 |
Concepts from Repeated Play |
Axelrod Pages 1-24 |
Lab
1: PD |
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Sept 20 |
Repeated Play II |
Axelrod Pages 25-54 |
HW3: Annotated
Proof |
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Sep 25 |
Repeated Play III
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Axelrod Pages 55-69, 206-215 |
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Part 3: Algorithms for Finding Solutions |
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Sept 27 |
Minimax: Alpha-Beta
Pruning & |
Online
Notes (alpha-beta) |
Lab 2: ESS |
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Oct 2 |
Evolutionary Algorithms |
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Oct 4 |
Evolutionary Algorithms continued ... |
HW4:
Minimax Solution |
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Oct 9 |
Review and catch-up |
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Oct 11 |
Exam #1 |
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Part 4: Social Welfare with Preferences |
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Oct 16 |
Social
Welfare/Mechanisms & |
Axelrod
Pages 73-87 |
HW6:
Annotated Impossibility Proof |
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Oct 18 |
Voting and Mechanism Design |
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Oct 23 |
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem |
Lab 3: Social
Choice |
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Part 5: Social Welfare with Utilities |
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Oct 25 |
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem Continued |
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Oct 30 |
Clarke Tax |
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Nov 1 |
Auctions & the Cost of Information |
HW7:
Internet Exploration |
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Nov 6 |
Bargaining |
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Part 2: Choice when payoff matrix is unknown |
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Part 6: Multi-Agent Learning and Distributed Search |
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Nov 8 |
Iterative Estimation & Sequential Utility |
Lab
4 Part 1: MA Learning Lab
4 Part 2: MA Learning |
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Nov 13 |
Practicalities of
Q-learning |
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Nov 15 |
Satisficing |
Crandall/Karandikar's algorithm |
Lab 5: Satisficing (Due Dec 13)
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Nov 20 |
No class -- Virtual Friday |
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Nov 22 |
No class -- Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Nov 27 |
Satisficing continued ... Exam Review |
Sections 4-7 of Hu
Wellman |
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Nov 29 |
Exam #2 –
No Class |
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Dec 4 |
M-Qubed |
HW8: Bowling
and Veloso Annotation |
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Dec 6 |
PHC and WoLF PHC |
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Dec 11 |
Class Presentations on Satisficing |
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Dec 13 |
Review and catch-up |
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Dec 17 |
7:00am - 10:00am |
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