A procedure for the evaluation of instructional techniques based on fictitious scenarios is described; it has been used to make the compared analysis of two strategies of cross-training applied as instructional techniques in the initiation of human groups that will be trained in tasks of sociotechnical nature. The training strategy uses two fictitious scenarios through which knowledge, abilitie...

Distributed optimisation techniques have gained increasing attention due to fast development of autonomous robots. Many algorithms have been proposed to make optimisation more efficient. In this paper we propose a framework, which is based on probabilistic verification techniques, in order to compare the performance of various game-theoretic algorithms, in particular, fictitious play and its va...

The purpose of the course is to study several dynamics generated by strategic interactions in games. Among the topics are adaptive dynamics in evolutionary game theory, robust procedures for on-line algorithms and stochastic approximation. 1. Fictitious play Discrete time Continuous time and best reply dynamics 2. Replicator dynamics n populations One population Evolutionary Stable Strategies 3...

We discuss consistency of Vanishingly Smooth Fictitious Play, a strategy in the context of game theory, which can be regarded as a smooth fictitious play procedure, where the smoothing parameter is time-dependent and asymptotically vanishes. This answers a question initially raised by Drew Fudenberg and Satoru Takahashi. 1. Introduction and background A recurring question in the theory of repea...

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The critical rheology of sheared frictional granular materials near jamming transition is numerically investigated. It is confirmed that there exists a true critical density which characterizes the onset of the yield stress and two fictitious critical densities which characterize the scaling laws of rheological properties. We find the existence of a hysteresis loop between two of the critical d...

— We present a wavelet multigrid preconditioner for the conjugale gradient method which gives an efficient solver for the linear System art s ing from a wavelet-Galerkin discretiz.ation of a Dirichlet boundary-value problem via a pénalty/fictitious domain formulation. The preconditioner is chosen to be a wavelet-based multigrid method for solving the same elliptic équation, however over the fic...

Fictitious play is a classical learning process for games, and games with strategic complementarities are an important class including many economic applications. Knowledge about convergence properties of fictitious play in this class of games is scarce, however. Beyond games with a unique equilibrium, global convergence has only been claimed for games with diminishing returns (V. Krishna, 1992...

The Coyote Community College Case Study was prepared for use in the 2000 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner Preparation Course. This report provides a sample feedback report for that case study. The Coyote Community College Case Study describes a fictitious college. There is no connection between the Coyote Community College Case Study and any college, either named Coyote Communit...