Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems: how to meld networks and auction theory in a decentralized way
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Mezei/publication/221207481_Auction_Aggregation_Protocols_for_Wireless_Robot-Robot_Coordination/links/0c96051ac73776f7ae000000/Auction-Aggregation-Protocols-for-Wireless-Robot-Robot-Coordination.pdf In class, we talked at length about both modelling large numbers of discrete nodes which are connected in specific ways as networks and using auctions to enable individual bidders to compete for a task such that the cost to the bidders for completing a task is optimal for the winning bid. Both auction mechanics […]
Putin and Trump: A Precarious Relationship
Article Link From the onset of Trump’s bid to become president, doubts about his allegiance to the United States began to surface. One of the more significant cause for this doubt is his relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin, specifically concerning whether Putin had incriminating evidence of Trump engaged in illegal activities. The article by […]
Networks In Hip Hop — and Assortativity
Article: https://www.nature.com/news/2005/051205/full/news051205-8.html Though hip hop may be known for its generally aggressive sounds and lyrics, and lone-wolf personalities, this genre of music has and continues to exhibit an interesting phenomena of great degrees of collaboration between artists from all around the sound and regional spectrums — similar to the collaborative spirit of genres like early jazz, […]
Game theory in inter-species mutualism and parasitism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347201919372 In the natural world there are many cases where two organisms from different species cooperate in order to produce a net gain; however, sometimes this behavior seems paradoxical and the observer is left wondering how it developed. One well-characterized example of this is between reef fish and their cleaner fish, who eat the ectoparasites […]
Game Theory in New York City Public Schools
In class we discussed the concept of game theory, and how it addresses situations in which the outcome of a person’s decision depends on what choices they make, and the choices of people they interact with. In the New York City school system, game theory now dictates how students and schools will interact in terms […]
How Blockchain is Innovating the Online Auction Space
https://medium.com/auctionity/decentralizing-ascending-auctions-on-blockchain-dffab74446c1 A company called Auctionity is using blockchain technologies to decentralize online English auctions while making them faster and more secure. Auctionity argues that the properties of block chain will make their online auctions unbiased and impossible to corrupt, allowing both the bidder and seller to have full faith in the rules of the auction. […]
Nike, Game Theory, and Strong Triadic Closure
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/what-boycott-nike-sales-are-31-percent-kaepernick-campaign-n908251 https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/13/news/companies/nike-colin-kaepernick-just-do-it-national-anthem-nfl-football/index.html Recently, Nike released an ad featuring Kaepernick to which there was a varying degree of reaction. However, there was a clear distinction between the reactions – groups for it and groups against it. This distinction creates a strong triadic closure for all the groups. If we can divide all the people into two […]
Applying Braess’s Paradox and Other Network Concepts on Basketball
https://www-degruyter-com.proxy.library.cornell.edu/view/j/jqas.2010.6.1/jqas.2010.6.1.1217/jqas.2010.6.1.1217.xml As someone who doesn’t consider himself particularly strong in math (and particularly the logic kind), Networks has occasionally built brick walls on my way to understanding how certain concepts work, often forcing me to ultimately boil down my line of thinking to “it just works” in order to keep myself from going crazy. One […]
Game theory and Pitch Optimization
Source: https://www.fangraphs.com/community/how-game-theory-is-applied-to-pitch-optimization/ Game theory is designed to address situations in which the outcome of a person’s decision depends not just on how they choose among several options, but also on the choices made by the people they are interacting with. This article explores how the ideas of game theory could be applied to baseball and […]
Cooperate to “cheat”
Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm Professor Nonacs from UCLA demonstrated the essence of game theory to his students in his Behavioral Ecology Class. The students were given an extremely hard mid-term and instructed to provide the best answers with all the possible resources they had. The professor’s vicious scheme […]
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