Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

In the latest AMS feature column, Joseph Malkevitch discusses mathematics involved in sports scheduling and related fairness and optimization questions in choosing rankings or winners.

The 11th Max-Planck Summer School Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADFOCS 2010) will be held from August 2 - 6, 2010 in Saarbruecken, Germany. The topic is `Approximation Algorithms and Algorithmic Game Theory’ and the invited speakers are Christos Papadimitriou,Vijay Vazirani and Guido Schaefer. Topics covered in the course will be `Computing Equilibria’, `Traditional to Novel Market Models: the Quest for the 'Right' One’ and `Cost Sharing and Approximation Algorithms’.

An interesting workshop on algorithmic mechanism design : http://econ.eecs.northwestern.edu/FMD2010/#schedule   

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.