Fall 05 Reading Group

on Algorithmic Mechanism Design



Announcements:


Basic Plan:

Algorithmic mechanism design originated in economics and in recent years has become an active area in computer science with lots of interesting open problems.  Try it!

As what we did in the summer, we are going to read some recent papers to broaden our knowledge in algorithmic mechanism design and look for interesting new problems to work on together. 

See below for the background information and the list of papers we covered in summer.  Suggestions about other interesting papers are welcome. 




Organizer:

Prof. Michael Saks
Office: Hill 430
Office phone: 7324455434
Email: saks@math.rutgers.edu

Lan Yu
Office: Hill 486
Office Phone: 7324453908
Email: lanyu@paul.rutgers.edu



Time & Location:


Wednesday 10:30 am - 11:30 am in CORE 433
 



Background:

For background information of the field, see the following survey by Noam Nisan
Algorithms for Selfish Agents -- Mechanism Design for Distributed Computation



Paper List of Summer 05: