Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

Amartya Sen, one of my favourite writers has written a new book 'Idea of Justice' . Sen is a true polymath: trained economist and also a great thinker, intellectual and philosopher. Among other topics, the book focusses on rationality, social welfare and justice all of which greatly interest me. Therefore, it promises to be an enjoyable read. Here is the book review by the economist .

I have been notified of the following useful site for research jobs, postdoctoral fellowships etc. http://cifellows.org/opportunities/ The jobs are not necessarily US specific and include opportunities in IBM India.

I have compiled a list of useful courses related to algorithmic game theory. If time permits, I will try to organize the list in a suitable way. Course on Networks Modern classics in social choice theory Introduction to Computational Economics (Conitzer) Topics in Computational Economics (Conitzer) Computational Game Theory and Mechanism Design (Conitzer) Multiagent Systems (KevinLB) Computational Social Choice (Endriss) Multiagent Systems (Endriss) Economics and Computation (Feigenbaum) Game theory and the internet (UCBerkeley) Algorithmic and economic aspects of the internet Electronic Negotiation Topics in Game Theory (Rutgers) Sequential Decision Theory: Algorithms, Policies, and Games Algorithmic Game Theory and Applications ( Etessami) Information networks (Saberi) Computation of Equilibria (Saberi) Information Networks (Saberi) Algorithmic and Economic aspects of social networks (Immorlica) Social Networks 101 Algorithmic Mechanism Design (Hartline) E-...

The list of accepted papers: Leah Epstein and Asaf Levin. On equilibria for ADM minimization games Shahar Dobzinski and Noam Nisan. A Modular Approach to Roberts' Theorem Andre Berger, Rudolf Müller and Seyed Hossein Naeemi. Characterizing Incentive Compatibility for Convex Valuations Clemens Thielen and Sven Krumke. Truthful Mechanisms for Selfish Routing and Two-Parameter Agents Michal Feldman and Moshe Tennenholtz. Partition Equilibrium Abraham Othman and Tuomas Sandholm. Better with Byzantine: Manipulation-Optimal Mechanisms Jose Correa and Nicolas Figueroa. On the planner’s loss due to lack of information in Bayesian mechanism design Krzysztof Apt and Arantza Estevez-Fernandez. Sequential pivotal mechanisms for public project problems Tobias Harks, Max Klimm and Rolf H. Moehring. Characterizing the Existence of Potential Functions in Weighted Congestion G...

The latest issue of the SIGecom Exchanges is now available . The letters include simplified surveys of some recent papers on mechanism design and game theory along with an interesting puzzle about Japanese warriors!

I am re producing an extract from the VPP 2009 workshop which will be held at Warwick next month : -------- Voting Power in Practice Summer Workshop Developing Governance Models of Corporate and Intergovernmental Institutions with Shareholder Voting 14 - 16 July 2009 Scarman House, University of Warwick We would like to invite participation of both academic researchers, with either theoretical or applied interests, and practitioners working on corporate governance, from government, financial regulation, investment management and NGOs. Academics will gain a deeper practical understanding and practitioners will benefit from contact with the theoretical preoccupations of academic researchers in their shared fields. We hope that there will be participants from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and with different interests including political science, economics, game theory and other branches of mathematics, public choice, social choice and voting procedures, as well as practitioners and the...

The latest issue is now available.