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control in wireless networks. Joint work with Ozan Candogan, Ishai | control in wireless networks. Joint work with Ozan Candogan, Ishai | ||
Menache, and Asu Ozdaglar (MIT), http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2405 | Menache, and Asu Ozdaglar (MIT), http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2405 | ||
Revision as of 23:46, 18 November 2010
Pablo Parrilo will be visiting Caltech on 23 Nov 2010 (Tue). Sign up for a time to meet with him below.
Agenda
| 9:30a | Open |
| 10:15a | Open |
| 11:00a | Seminar: 214 Steele |
| 12:00p | Lunch with John, (faculty: add your name to the list if you want to come) |
| 1:30p | Open |
| 2:15p | Open |
| 3:00p | Richard Murray (109 Steele) |
| 3:45p | Open |
| 4:15p | Open |
Seminar
FLOWS AND DECOMPOSITIONS OF GAMES: HARMONIC AND POTENTIAL GAMES
Pablo A. Parrilo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Steele 214
Exact potential games are those where the preferences of the strategy profiles of the different players are globally consistent, and therefore the players' payoffs can be aggregated through a joint function. In this talk, we analyze the general situation where there are local or global inconsistencies between the preferences of the different players. For this, we introduce a natural decomposition of multiplayer games in terms of potential and harmonic components. Besides its intrinsic interest, this decomposition facilitates the study of equilibrium and convergence properties of natural game dynamics. We discuss the implications for cooperative control problems, pricing schemes, and efficiency loss, and illustrate the results and techniques through an example of power control in wireless networks. Joint work with Ozan Candogan, Ishai Menache, and Asu Ozdaglar (MIT), http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2405
