CS 686 Assignment 1

Due at the beginning of class on Thursday, January 21

The point of this assignment is twofold: to let me know how to focus lectures, and to get you thinking about projects you'll do later in the semester.

You may submit this on paper or by email. I encourage you to investigate the math typesetting system, LaTeX. There are several free versions available for PC (mictex?) and Mac (TeXshop?) and Linux/Unix.

What sort of decision-making interests you? Are there particular techniques or applications that you want to focus on this semester?

What format might you use for your midterm and final? Your options are:

Survey paper based on 3 or more (for undergrads) or 5 or more (for grad students) technical papers, published in peer-reviewed conferences, journals, or monographs, on a subject of you choosing, related to computational decision making;

implementation of an algorithm from the research literature, with data collected from runs of the algorithm, and either a writeup or class presentation;

in-class talk based on one or more research papers;

review of some in-use computational decision making method, with analysis of its applicability;

speculative paper on how a particular technique or techniques could be used for a particular application, including applicability, technical details, and discussion of the possible effects of the use of this technique.