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Take - Home Final Exam

There are four questions. They have equal weight, though they are probably not of equal difficulty. The exam is meant to allow an A performance in four hours of work. Long answers are less welcome than shorter, correct answers. The exam is available at 10AM Wednesday, January 23 and is due at 10AM Thursday, January 24. Submission of answers by email is OK, and I will verify that I have received...

Take Home Final

Take-Home Final Examination

Due: Friday, March 13 2009 at 11:59PM. Late submissions will not be graded. Instructions: The exam has 4 parts testing different skills/knowledge you have (hopefully) acquired during the quarter. There are two homework-style questions, one paper summary and one research/design question. Since this is an exam, you should not discuss these problems with anyone else. You can refer to your textbook...

Unbeatable Consensus

The unbeatability of a consensus protocol, introduced by Halpern, Moses and Waarts in [14],is a stronger notion of optimality than the accepted notion of early stopping protocols. Usinga novel knowledge-based analysis, this paper derives the first practical unbeatable consensusprotocols in the literature, for the standard synchronous message-passing model with crashfailures. The...

Unbeatable Imitation

We show that for many classes of symmetric two-player games, the simple decision rule “imitate-the-best” can hardly be beaten by any other decision rule. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for imitation to be unbeatable and show that it can only be beaten by much in games that are of the rock-scissors-paper variety. Thus, in many interesting examples, like 2x2 games, Cournot duopoly...