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Feb 5 Seminar: Daniel Grosu

Date: 
Thu, 02/05/2009 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
Seminar Information: 

Daniel Grosu

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wayne State University

"Parallel Computation of Nash Equilibria in Bimatrix Games"

Daniel Grosu 2/5 seminar streaming audio file 

Location: 

4-5:30 pm
UM: 1202 SI North, 1075 Beal Ave (via videoconference)
WSU: 313 State Hall

Daniel Grosu
Seminar Description: 

We consider the problem of computing all Nash equilibria in bimatrix games (i.e., nonzero-sum two-player noncooperative games). Computing all Nash equilibria for large bimatrix games using single-processor computers is not feasible due to the exponential amount of time required by the existing algorithms. To be able to solve large games we need to rely on parallel computing. We present the design of two parallel algorithms for computing all Nash equilibria in bimatrix games. The first parallel algorithm computes all equilibria by searching all possible supports of mixed strategies. The second parallel algorithm computes all equilibria by enumerating the vertices of the best response polyhedrons of the two players. Both algorithms were implemented using MPICH, a portable implementation of the Message-Passing Interface standard. We present and analyze the performance obtained by executing the two parallel algorithms on a grid computing system.

Seminar Speaker Bio: 

Daniel Grosu is an assistant professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He is the director of the STIET program at WSU. His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, grid computing, electronic voting, and topics at the interface between computer science, game theory and economics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2003. (More information at: http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~dgrosu)