A one-day seminar called Control and Automation Session of e-TEC Talks @ SNU Winter 2024 (Emerging Technology in Electrical and Computer engineering Talks at Seoul National Winter 2024) was hosted by CDSL on February 6, 2024. Prof. Shinkyu Park from King Abdulah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, and ISFP. Jingyu Lee from Inria Research Center at the University of Lille, France, were invited as speakers.
Prof. Shinkyu Park delivered a seminar under the title of “Passivity, Stability, and Learning in Large-Population Games”. He viewed the decision-making problem of multi-agent systems as an interconnection called the Evolutionary Dynamics Model between a decision-making model and a game model. Through this interconnection, he explained that the strategy of agents would converge to a Nash equilibrium using the concept of ‘passivity’ from nonlinear system theory. Further details can be found in here.
ISFP. Jingyu Lee shared his interest under the title of “From algorithms of nature To algorithmic system theory”. In this talk, he reviewed the fundamental principles of the blended dynamics theory. He emphasized that the blended dynamics is the emergent collective behavior which arises when heterogeneous agents are enforced to be synchronized. He is also interested in extending algorithmic system theory based on this philosophy with algorithms given in nature. For example, as sustainability becomes a major concern in engineering, he discussed how spiky interactions occurring in the biological nervous system can be applied to engineering algorithms.
Since multi-agent system is one of the major interest of CDSL, these talks were very informative for researchers of CDSL. We expect further ideas to be developed on the decision-making problems and the blended dynamics theory.