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How to Compute in a Selfish Society: Randomness May be the Key by Shaddin Dughmi
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3:30:00 PM on 11/9/2010
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SSL 150
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Speaker: Shaddin Dughmi, Stanford University
Host: Dr. David Kempe
Abstract:
Algorithmic Mechanism Design is concerned with solving computational problems in situations where essential problem data is being held privately by selfish agents. Techniques from economics have long existed for aligning the incentives of the agents with the social good, yet they often require solving a hard optimization problem exactly. On the other hand, computer scientists have coped with intractability by des...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1118
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