[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2003.21 - 04.01 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2003.21#11550 26-May-2003 [ Your Message ] Decentralized Decision-Making In A Large Team With Local Information, Games & Econ. Behav. Abstract: We study a problem involving a team of agents each associated with a node in a chain. Each agent makes a decision that influences only his own cost and those of adjacent agents. Prior to making his decision, each agent observes only the cost structure associated with nodes that can be reached by traversing no more than r arcs. We show that (...) deterministic strategies require r to be proportional to the number of agents. This means that the amount of information accessible to any agent should be proportional to the total number of agents. Source: Decentralized Decision-Making In A Large Team With Local Information[ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WFW-484V9T8-4&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-AV-MsSAYVW-UUA-AUCBZZEZVC-ZVDWEZZC-AV-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=6&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%236805%232003%23999569997%23421090!&_cdi=6805&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=cc27914da976cca1ba991f4e6fc07c40 ], P. Rusmevichientong - paatrusstanford.edu, b. van roy, DOI: 10.1016/S0899-8256(03)00006-X, May 2003 Contributed by Pritha Das - prithadas01yahoo.com You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=11550