| Sponsor | Prof. Sven Koenig <skoenig@cc.gatech.edu> |
| Area | Intelligent Systems |
Recently, artificial intelligence researchers have begun to study how to apply reinforcement learning methods to routing packages in networks. Your task is to read the following paper on this topic:
Subramanian, Druschel, and Chen: Ants and reinforcement learning: a case study in routing in dynamic networks, Proceedings of IJCAI-97, 1997.
Your task then is to find and read material in the networking literature that relates to this approach and, based on your findings, prepare an informal 45-60 minute talk that a) gives an overview of this material and b) assesses whether the reinforcement-learning approaches are interesting from a networking perspective and what, in your opinion, promising research directions are for applying reinforcement-learning methods to network routing (if any).