"It's not your father's mechanism design"

5/9/2003: 10:30am - 12:00pm
11th Floor Large Conference Room

Abstract: Mechanism design (MD) is a branch of game theory devoted to the design of protocols for self interested agents. In recent years, MD has made inroads into several areas of computer science. I will discuss some of our work in this area, which ties MD to several traditional concepts within computer science: Fairness (work on so-called "fair imposition"), fault tolerance ("fault-tolerant MD"), communication complexity ("rational computation") and even cryptography ("non-cooperative computing"). (The talk is based on papers co-authored with M. Tennenholtz, R. Porter, A. Ronen, and B. McGrew in various combinations.)

About Yoav Shoham: Dr. Yoav Shoham is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. For more information, please visit http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/.

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