[Intelligence Seminar] Nov. 8, 2:00pm:, Presentation by Vincent Conitzer

Dana Houston dhouston at cs.cmu.edu
Wed Nov 2 08:32:53 EDT 2011


INTELLIGENCE SEMINAR
NOVEMBER 8 AT 2:00PM, IN GHC 4405
(PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL ROOM AND TIME)

SPEAKER: VINCENT CONITZER (Duke University)
Host: Ariel Procaccia
For meetings, contact Gayle Bishop (gayle at cs.cmu.edu)

MECHANISM DESIGN FOR PREDICTION

Joint work with
   Dmytro Korzhyk, Joshua Letchford, Kamesh Munagala, Ronald Parr (Duke);
   Manish Jain, Zhengyu Yin, Milind Tambe (USC);
   Christopher Kiekintveld (UT El Paso);
   Ondrej Vanek, Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University);
   Tuomas Sandholm (CMU)

Algorithms for computing game-theoretic solutions are now deployed in
real-world security domains, notably air travel. These applications
raise some hard questions. How do we deal with the equilibrium
selection problem? How is the temporal and informational structure of
the game best modeled? What assumptions can we reasonably make about
the utility functions of the attacker and the defender? And, last but
not least, can we make all these modeling decisions in a way that
allows us to scale to realistic instances? I will present our ongoing
work on answering these questions.

BIO

Vincent Conitzer is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of
Computer Science and Professor of Economics at Duke University, and
received his Ph.D. from CMU CSD in 2006, advised by Tuomas Sandholm.
His research focuses on computational aspects of microeconomic theory,
in particular game theory, mechanism design, voting/social choice, and
auctions. He recently received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award,
which is awarded to outstanding young scientists in artificial
intelligence.

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