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Co-ordination and control
Supervisor: Ayalvadi Ganesh
Theme: Bayesian Modelling & Analysis
How are such large networks controlled?
For example, if many users/computers have to share resources, how is
the sharing done? Typically, there are no central points of control,
but there are rules or protocols that the agents using the network are
required to abide by. How can we come up with good ``local" rules (that
a computer can implement based on very limited information, perhaps
about a small number of other computers that it interacts with) that
lead to desirable global behaviour? This is related to the topic of
distributed algorithms. Probabilistic algorithms and their analysis
will be of particular interest. (See also Sean Collins and John McNamara's
projects on Game Theory.)