Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

Springer LNCS celebrated their 10,000 issue with an anniversary edition with contribution of the 26 state-of-the-art surveys from international experts. We contributed a survey on computational social choice. 

AAMAS 2020 Call for Tutorials The AAMAS 2020 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program to be held on 9 th and 10 th May 2020, immediately before the technical conference. AAMAS 2020 Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: ·       Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research. ·       Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies. ·       Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice. ·       Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance. ·       Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area. ·       Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people from industry. ·       Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AAMAS work. ·       Introduce AAMAS ...

https://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=19381 15. – 20. September 2019 Application-Oriented Computational Social Choice Organisation Umberto Grandi (University Toulouse Capitole, FR) Stefan Napel (Universität Bayreuth, DE) Rolf Niedermeier (TU Berlin, DE) Kristen Brent Venable (Tulane University – New Orleans, US) Motivation Computational social choice (COMSOC) combines models from political science and economics with techniques from computer science, to analyze collective decision processes from a computational perspective. Classical contributions include the study of the computational barriers to various forms of manipulation in elections, the definition of novel procedures for distributed resources among a group of human or artificial agents, as well as the study of complex collective decisions such as multi-winner voting rules and voting in combinatorial domains. COMSOC is a thriving field of research, with an international bi-ann...

DEAKIN ECONOMIC THEORY  WORKSHOP 2019  Date: Thursday, 5 September 2019 Location: Burwood Corporate Center  Level 2, Building BC 221 Burwood Highway  Deakin Economic Theory Workshop program 9:00 – 9:30 am Reception 9:30 – 10:30 am Keynote Speaker: William Thomson, University of Rochester On Claims Problems 10:30 – 10:50 am Morning Tea 10:50 – 11:20 am Onur Kesten, Carnegie Mellon University Strategy-Proof and Efficient Mediation: An Ordinal Mechanism Design Approach 11:20 – 11:50 am Duygu Yengin Erdemir, University of Adelaide Bargaining under Eminent Domain Threat 11:50 – 1:20 pm Lunch 1:20 – 1:50 pm Ivan Balbuzanov, University of Melbourne Constrained Random Matching 1:50 – 2:20 pm Isa Hafalir, University of Technology Sydney Interdistrict School Choice: A Theory of Student Assignment 2:20 – 2:40 pm Afternoon Tea 2:40 – 3:10 pm Haris Aziz, UNSW Fair Allocat...

Congratulations to Ariel Procaccia for winning the Social Choice and Welfare Prize  2020. Ariel is the third computer scientist (after Vince Conitzer and Tim Roughgarden) to win the prestigious award highlight the increasing impact computer scientists are having on social sciences. Ariel has been instrumental in popularising fair division within the AI community and beyond. His influential papers on fair division, voting theory and mechanism design have also led to several new lines of inquiry. 

The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) has published a report   titled that discusses the potential of AI to improve our wellbeing in Australia. The report is written by  Toby Walsh, Neil Levy, Genevieve Bell, Anthony Elliott, James Maclaurin, Iven Mareels, and Fiona Woods.