Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

Vince Conitzer has a review article on multiagent preference aggregation, title ' Making Decisions Based on the Preferences of Multiple Agents ' in the latest issue of the CACM.

FYI... -------------------------------------------- Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality Foundations for an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory 05 - 12 July, 2010 Directed by Gerd Gigerenzer and Vernon Smith Evening Lecture: Ariel Rubinstein Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany It is our pleasure to announce the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality 2010 - Foundations of an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory, which will take place from July 5th to 12th, 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. The objective of the Summer Institute is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary research, bringing together young scholars from psychology, economics, biology, philosophy, and neuroscience. It wants to push for a common understanding of the way Homo Sapiens forms decisions, challenging the reigning assumptions in the individual disciplines. This year, the evening lecture will be g...