Call for Papers: EC'25 2nd Workshop on New Directions in Social Choice
Dominik Peters
Join us for the Second Workshop on New Directions in Social Choice, co-located with the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'25) at Stanford University on Thursday, July 10, 2025!
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on topics related to voting and social choice. With a focus on recent developments, new application domains, new analysis frameworks, and the intersection with artificial intelligence, the workshop will provide a platform for discussing the latest breakthroughs and charting directions for future work in the field.
Workshop Website: https://ec25.comsocseminar.org/
Submission Link: https://comsocseminar.org/ec25-hotcrp/
Workshop Theme
Social choice theory has been studying collective decision-making since the 1950s. Recent progress has deepened our understanding along several axes of innovation, and this workshop seeks to explore these exciting frontiers:
New Application Domains: Social choice theory is being applied to an expanding range of new areas. Theoretical progress (e.g., voting in combinatorial domains) has fueled new applications (e.g., participatory budgeting, resource allocation, group recommendation).
New Analysis Frameworks: The field has benefited from new perspectives on well-known questions through innovative analysis frameworks. Examples include understanding distortion in metric spaces, developing best-of-both-worlds guarantees, and employing forms of beyond-worst-case analysis.
Accounting for Hard-to-Model Facets: Social choice theory is making strides in incorporating complex, real-world aspects of decision-making, such as deliberation processes, preference learning, strategic behavior under uncertainty, and the impact of information structures.
Social Choice for Artificial Intelligence: There is a growing need to apply social choice principles to the development and governance of AI systems. This includes aggregating diverse human preferences for AI alignment, social choice approaches to fairness in algorithmic decision-making, and designing mechanisms for collective AI control.
The purpose of this workshop is to highlight recent breakthroughs in these directions, chart avenues for future work, and bring together the social choice community at EC.
This half-day workshop will take place in the afternoon (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM) on Thursday, July 10, at the EC'25 conference. The workshop will feature contributed and invited talks, an open-problem session, and a joint poster session with other EC'25 workshops.
Call for Papers and Submission Instructions
We solicit paper contributions on the topics of this workshop. We encourage submissions that explore any of the themes listed above, as well as other novel directions in computational social choice. We encourage authors to submit papers using the EC style files, but other formats are also acceptable. Submissions will be lightly reviewed, and we prefer focussed and short versions of papers. We will accept papers both as poster and as oral presentations.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025, 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification to Authors: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Workshop Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025 (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
Workshop Organizers:
Ashish Goel, Stanford
Paul Gölz, Cornell
Dominik Peters, CNRS