Lessons from ISIS

ISIS is USC's (west) team. The group has been led by Milind Tambe.
There is a tradeoff in monitoring. You can either build a complex agent that keeps track of everything around it (control tower), or simpler agents that communicate the important information to each other (lookout person). The case with simpler agents relies on joint commitments.
Competition with collaboration is good. Having an overlap in the players' zones allows for failure recovery (e.g., one player is tired, or can't see the ball, or is blocked by others....).
Used C4.5 to learn what part of the goal to shoot for. Some decisions are too hard to do by hand. However, learning also fails because it often assumes a perfect opponent (worst-case scenario).'
Social online learning must be undertaken with caution. That is, what one player learns might not be useful to others (because they face different challenges).