Coordination of Distributed Information and Decisions

这是一项关于分布式信息的收集、通信和处理以及分布式决策的协调所涉及的基本问题的合作研究工作。所研究的问题适用于经济、政府机构和企业等社会组织，以及大规模控制系统、分布式通信网络和异步并行处理系统等机器系统。工程师和经济学家都分析了这些问题，尽管他们的目标不同。然而，在两个领域形成的洞察力可能会在另一个领域产生成效。这是一个研究领域的计划，领域包括信息经济学、并行处理和机器学习、团队理论、分布式信息的控制和估计，以及相互作用的大系统中均衡行为和分配的出现。为了增加这项工作的影响，研究人员举办了一系列关于协调、信息和决策的跨学科研讨会。

This is a collaborative research effort on fundamental problems involved in the collection, communication and processing of distributed information and the coordination of distributed decision making. The issues studied apply to social organizations such as economies, government agencies, and firms, as well as to machine systems such as large scale control systems, distributed communications networks, and asynchronous parallel processing systems. Engineers and economists both analyze these issues, although with different goals. However, insights developed in each field are likely to be productive in the other. This is a program of research in areas of information economics, parallel processing and machine learning, team theory, control and estimation with distributed information, and the emergence of equilibrium behavior and allocations in large systems of interacting agents. To increase the impact of this work, the researchers run an interdisciplinary workshop series on coordination, information, and decisions.