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16th Coalition Theory Network Workshop: Barcelona, February 4-5, 2011
From the website: The Center for the study of the Organizations and Decisions in Economics ( CODE ) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and MOVE will be organizing the 16th Coalition Theory Network Workshop in Barcelona, Spain, on February 4-5, 2011. We cordially invite you to attend. The Workshop will present the state of the art of theoretical, experimental and empirical research in: Coalition formation; Network formation; Matching. Confirmed invited speakers are: Francis Bloch (École Polytechnique); Lars Ehlers (Université de Montréal); Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex).
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
The author of ' How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities ', John Cassidy talks about his book: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290952-1
Mining social networks: Untangling the social web
The Economist discusses the importance of new algorithmic tools to analyse social networks.
The Social Network
The Guardian profiles the upcoming movie 'The Social Network' which depicts how Facebook started.
Conference in town
OR2010 is starting this week in Munich [ map ]. Game theory sessions include the following: Contributions to Cooperative Game Theory [TA-14 Thursday, 8:30-10:00 3101] A Value for Games with a Coalition Structure (Francesc Carreras) On the Use of Generating Functions to Compute Power Indices based on Minimal Winning Coalitions (Josep Freixas) Data Cost Games: The 1-Concavity and Core Properties (Theodorus S.H. Driessen) Theoretical Contributions to Game Theory [TD-14 Thursday, 14:00-15:30 3101] A Fresh Look on the Battle of Sexes Paradigm (Rudolf Avenhaus) Non-negativity of Information Value in Games, Symmetry and Invariance (Sigifredo Laengle) Algorithmic Aspects of Equilibria of Stable Marriage Model with Complete Preference Lists (Tomomi Matsui)
COMSOC 2010 program
The COMSOC 2010 program is up . PAMAS has a decent showing with four papers: On the Fixed-Parameter Tractability of Composition-Consistent Tournament Solutions Felix Brandt, Markus Brill, and Hans Georg Seedig Bypassing Combinatorial Protections: Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Single-Peaked Electorates Felix Brandt, Markus Brill, Edith Hemaspaandra, and Lane A. Hemaspaandra Optimal Partitions in Additively Separable Hedonic Games Haris Aziz, Felix Brandt, and Hans Georg Seedig Group-Strategyproof Irresolute Social Choice Functions Felix Brandt