The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is offering a special topics course for Winter 2023 called ECE 493 LEC 002 (Foundations of Multi-agent Systems) and it is taught by Seyed Majid Zahedi. If CS students have questions on the course, then they can contact the course instructor at smzahedi@uwaterloo.ca.
ECE will override any interested CS students into the course beginning on December 7 as per their enrolment website - https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/course-enrolment-w23#StudentCS. Students should email eceadvis@uwaterloo.ca to request an override as they won’t be able to add the course themselves in Quest.
Course Descriptions:
This course is an introduction to the mathematical and computational foundations of modern multi agent systems, with a focus on game theoretic analysis of systems in which rational and self-interested agents interact strategically. The course studies problems at the interface of economic theory, computer science, and computer engineering. It provides analytic tools to analyze and model multi agent systems in which an agent s welfare is a function of not only their own actions, but also those of others. Tentative topics include games in normal form, extensive form, and beyond (e.g., repeated, stochastic, coalitional, and Bayesian games), computation of game theoretic solution concepts, mechanism design and multi agent learning.
Prerequisites:
There are no formal prerequisites, and it is assumed that most students in the class will be unfamiliar with game theory mechanism design, and multi agent systems. Since some of the material is quite mathematically formal, students are expected to have introductory knowledge in probability theory (ECE 203 or equivalents), computational complexity (ECE 208 or equivalent), and algorithms (ECE 250 or equivalent).
ECE will override any interested CS students into the course beginning on December 7 as per their enrolment website - https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/course-enrolment-w23#StudentCS. Students should email eceadvis@uwaterloo.ca to request an override as they won’t be able to add the course themselves in Quest.
Course Descriptions:
This course is an introduction to the mathematical and computational foundations of modern multi agent systems, with a focus on game theoretic analysis of systems in which rational and self-interested agents interact strategically. The course studies problems at the interface of economic theory, computer science, and computer engineering. It provides analytic tools to analyze and model multi agent systems in which an agent s welfare is a function of not only their own actions, but also those of others. Tentative topics include games in normal form, extensive form, and beyond (e.g., repeated, stochastic, coalitional, and Bayesian games), computation of game theoretic solution concepts, mechanism design and multi agent learning.
Prerequisites:
There are no formal prerequisites, and it is assumed that most students in the class will be unfamiliar with game theory mechanism design, and multi agent systems. Since some of the material is quite mathematically formal, students are expected to have introductory knowledge in probability theory (ECE 203 or equivalents), computational complexity (ECE 208 or equivalent), and algorithms (ECE 250 or equivalent).
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