4/27/01
pkozemchak@darpa.mil
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Game Theory and Economic Models in IT
•Recent progress in theory for diverse game contexts
–repeated/finite, sustaining efficiency and cooperation,
auctions, bargaining and negotiation,
incomplete/imperfect information.
–Becoming standard language for decision making:
economics, sociology. Recent Nobel prize
for Nash.
•Networks:
–QoS: Service and resource pricing games for better QoS
provisioning, congestion control.
Current research activity.
–Denial of Service: Uncertainty in opponents, actions.
Game approach to design monitoring
and enforcement, balance costs and risks.
•Logistics - recent successes
•Physician Resident Matching program (preference
matching)
•Cal power exchange (Dutch auctions)
•Explore application to DOD scenarios
•Collaborative reasoning, negotiation.
–Embed game theoretic tools in agents/decision aids;
group decisions.
DARPA
Sri Kumar