CMPUT 654 (Winter 2019)

Modelling Human Strategic Behaviour

Schedule

This schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses, but it will be kept up to date. Slides are linked from the lecture title. They will be made available on the day of the lecture.

Part 1: Game theory

Date Topic Readings & Milestones
Tue, Jan 8 Course overview  
Thu, Jan 10 Utility theory S&LB §3.1
Tue, Jan 15 Game theory intro S&LB §3.2–3.3.3
Thu, Jan 17 Further solution concepts S&LB §3.4
Add/Drop deadline Jan 18
Tue, Jan 22 Further solution concepts & Computational issues S&LB §3.4.5, 3.4.7, 4.1, 4.2.3, 4.6, Appendix B
Assignment 1 released
Thu, Jan 24 Perfect-information extensive form games S&LB §5.1
Tue, Jan 29 Imperfect-information extensive form games S&LB §5.2–5.2.2
Thu, Jan 31 Repeated games S&LB §6.1
Tue, Feb 5 Bayesian games S&LB §6.3
Assignment 1 due
Thu, Feb 7 Risk Aversion & Social choice S&LB §9.0–9.4 (excluding Arrow’s Theorem proof)
Tue, Feb 12 Mechanism design S&LB §10.0–10.4.2
Thu, Feb 14 Midterm exam Assignment 2 released Feb 15
Tue, Feb 19 Winter Reading Break, NO CLASS  
Thu, Feb 21 Winter Reading Break, NO CLASS  

Part 2: Behavioural game theory

Date Topic Readings & Milestones
Tue, Feb 26 Behavioural economics intro Kahneman & Tversky (1979)
Thu, Feb 28 Experimental design; presentation scheduling Mason & Suri (2012)
Kneeland (2015)
Survey outlines due
Tue, Mar 5 Single-shot interactions Camerer, Ho, and Chong (2004)
McKelvey & Palfrey (1995)
Optional: Wright & Leyton-Brown (2017)
Assignment 2 due
Thu, Mar 7 Salience and focal points Crawford & Iriberri (2007)
Burchardi and Penczynski (2014)
Optional: Wright & Leyton-Brown (2019)
Tue, Mar 12 Fairness and social preferences Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler (1986)
Gal, Mash, Procaccia, and Zick (2017)
Assignment 3 released
Thu, Mar 14 Repeated interactions Camerer & Ho (1999)
Chen, Liu, Chen, and Lee (2011)
Optional: Erev, Ert, Plonsky, Cohen, and Cohen, (2017) (Google Drive)
Tue, Mar 19 No-regret learning Hart & Mas-Colell (2000)
Nekipelov, Syrgkanis, and Tardos (2015)
Thu, Mar 21 Data-driven macroeconomic prediction (*) Wu & Brynjolfsson (2015)

Part 3: Research surveys

Date Presentations Milestones
Tue, Mar 26 (1) Michele: Fairness
(2) Zaheen: Disparity in Strategies Between Humans and Rational Agents in Curling
Assignment 3 due
Thu, Mar 28 (1) Daniel: Tragedy of the Commons
(2) Abhishek: Game Theory and Voter Turnout
 
Tue, Apr 2 (1) Amir: Game Theory for Morality
(2) Leticia: The Role of Deception in Games
 
Thu, Apr 4 (1) Ayantha: Game Theoretical Approaches to Handling Road Traffic
(2) Josh: Differential Privacy in Mechanism Design
 
Tue, Apr 9 (1) Touqir: Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms for Strategic Agents
(2) Maryam: Confidence in Value Based Decision-Making
 
Wed, Apr 10 NO CLASS Peer reviews due
Thu, Apr 11 NO CLASS Research survey due