Turing's Invisible Hand

The 34th Advanced School in Economic Theory and Computer Science will be held in Jerusalem during Sun, 23/06/2024 to Thu, 27/06/2024.

General Director:

• Eric Maskin, Harvard University

Organizers:

• Elchanan Ben-Porath, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
• Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Contemporary economic theorists and computer scientists have a large research agenda in common. Topics of mutual interest include the design of contracts, auctions, and information structures, as well as the use of algorithms to achieve fair allocations. This summer school will explore all these topics and more

Speakers:

• Fairness in learning and prediction: Katrina Ligett, HUJI
• Algorithmic contract design: Michal Feldman, TAU
• Multidimensional mechanism design: Sergiu Hart, HUJI
• Revenue maximization from samples: Yannai Gonczarowski, Harvard
• Economic aspects of Blockchains: Aviv Zohar, HUJI
• Fair division of indivisible items: Uriel Feige, Weizmann

Application Form

Limited financial support will be available for participants that cannot obtain support from their own institution, based on excellence and need.

The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and computation.

The 2023 SIGecom Test of Time Award will be given for papers published no earlier than 1998 and no later than 2013. Nominations are due by February 28th, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth), and must be made together with the endorsement letters by submission using this form. Any member of SIGecom may submit a nomination. Self-nomination is not allowed.

More details regarding the nomination procedure can be found here.  The list of winners from previous years can be found here.

The 2023 Test of Time Award Committee

Alvin Roth, Stanford University

Moshe Tennenholtz, The Technion

Noam Nisan (chair), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Social Choice and Welfare will publish a special issue on “Fair Public Decision Making: Allocating budgets, seats, and probability” (submission deadline: May 1st, 2022) that will be concerned with apportionment, multi-winner elections, participatory budgeting, donor coordination, probabilistic social choice, sortition, multiple referenda, and related topics. See the Call for Papers.

Guest editors: Haris Aziz, Felix Brandt, Edith Elkind, Jérôme Lang

The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and computation.To be eligible, a paper or series of papers must be on a topic in the intersection of economics and computation, and must have been first published in an archival journal or conference proceedings no less than ten years and no more than twenty-five years before the year the award is conferred. The 2022 ToT award will be given for papers published no earlier than 1997 and no later than 2012.

Nominations are due by February 28th, 2022 (Anywhere on Earth) and may be made by any member of ACM SIGecom (self-nomination is not allowed). A nomination also requires two or three endorsement letters that can speak to the lasting contribution, significance, and impact of the work. A new requirement this year is that the nominator must solicit and submit the endorsement letters to the Award Committee by the deadline. Full details are here: https://sigecom.org/award-tot-details.html It is expected that at least one of the nominated authors, if selected for the award, will attend the next ACM Conference on Economics and Computation to accept the award and give a presentation on the work. EC’22 is planned for July 11–15, 2022 and tentatively be held in Boulder, Colorado; the winner will have the option of presenting virtually, even if the conference is held in person.

The Award Committee welcomes questions from anyone considering or intending to submit a nomination. The committee may be contacted by email at sigecom-awards-tot@acm.org

The 2022 Test of Time Award Committee: Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University; Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; David Parkes (chair), Harvard University

The SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes an outstanding dissertation in the field of economics and computation. The award is conferred annually at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation and includes a certificate, complimentary conference registration, and an honorarium of $1,500. A certificate may further be given to up to two runners-up. No award may be conferred if the nominations are judged not to meet the standards for the award.

To be eligible, a dissertation must be on a topic related to economics and computation and must have been defended successfully during the calendar year preceding the year of the award presentation.

The next SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award will be given for dissertations defended in 2021. Nominations are due by February 28th, 2022 (Anywhere on Earth), and must be submitted by email to the Award Committee with “2021 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award” in the subject. A dissertation may be nominated simultaneously for both the SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Nominations may be made by any member of SIGecom and will typically come from the dissertation supervisor. Self-nomination is not allowed. Nominations for the award must include the following, preferably having items 1, 3, and 4 in a single PDF file:

1. A two-page summary of the dissertation, written by the nominee, including bibliographic data and links to publicly accessible versions of published papers based primarily on the dissertation.
2. An English-language version of the dissertation in a separate file.
3. An endorsement letter of no more than two pages by the nominator, arguing the merit of the dissertation, potential impact, and justification of the nomination. This document should also certify the dissertation defense date.
4. The names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least two additional endorsers.

The additional endorsement letters themselves should be sent directly by email, by the same deadline. These endorsements should be no longer than 500 words and should specify the relationship of the endorser to the nominee, contributions of the dissertation, and its potential impact on the field.

It is expected that a nominated candidate, if selected for the award, will attend the next ACM Conference on Economics and Computation on July 11–15, 2022, to accept the award and give a presentation on the dissertation work. The conference will tentatively be held in Boulder, Colorado. The award includes complimentary registration but does not cover travel or accommodation expenses to attend the conference.

See here:  https://sigecom.org/award-phd-details.html

The 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee

Yiling Chen (chair), Harvard University

Sigal Oren, Ben-Gurion University

Alex Teytelboym, University of Oxford

WINE 2021: The 17th Conference on Web and Internet Economics 

December 14-17, 2021
Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany

Overview

Over the past two decades, researchers in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, operations research, and economics have joined forces to understand the interplay of incentives and computation. These issues are of particular importance in the Web and the Internet that enable the interaction of large and diverse populations. The Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) is an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and results on incentives and computation arising from these various fields. WINE 2021 continues the successful tradition of the Conference on Web and Internet Economics (named Workshop on Internet & Network Economics until 2013), which was held annually from 2005 to present.

The program will feature invited talks, tutorials, paper presentations, and a poster session. All paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the quality of their contribution, originality, soundness, and significance. Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Algorithmic Mechanism Design
• Auction Algorithms and Analysis
• Computational Advertising
• Computational Aspects of Equilibria
• Computational Social Choice
• Learning in Markets and Mechanism Design
• Learning under Strategic Behavior
• Coalitions, Coordination, and Collective Action
• Economic Aspects of Security and Privacy
• Economic Aspects of Distributed Computing and Cryptocurrencies
• Econometrics, ML, and Data Science
• Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Modeling
• Fairness and Trust in Games and Markets
• Price Differentiation and Price Dynamics
• Revenue Management
• Social Networks and Network Games

Authors of the accepted papers will have a choice to attend the conference virtually.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific Time

Author notification: September (exact date TBA)

Submission Format

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts presenting original research on any of the research fields related to WINE 2021.

An extended abstract submitted to WINE 2021 should start with the title of the paper, each author’s name, affiliation and e-mail address, followed by a one-paragraph summary of the results to be presented. This should then be followed by a technical exposition of the main ideas and techniques used to achieve these results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work.

The extended abstract should not exceed 18 single-spaced pages (excluding references) using reasonable margins (at least one-inch margins all around) and at least 11-point font. If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix (with no space limit) that will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. It is strongly recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. The above specifications are meant to provide more freedom to the authors at the time of submission. Note that accepted papers will be allocated 14 pages (including references) in the LNCS format in the proceedings (see below).

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the ARCoSS/LNCS series, and will be available for distribution at the conference. Accepted papers will be allocated 14 pages total in the LNCS format in the proceedings. Submissions are encouraged, though not required, to follow the LNCS format (Latex, Word). More information about the LNCS format can be found on the author instructions page of Springer-Verlag. 

Best Paper Award

The program committee will decide upon a best paper award and a best student paper award.

Important Notice

To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of accepted papers can ask that only a one-page abstract of the paper appear in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the full paper. The authors should guarantee the link to be reliable for at least two years. This option is available to accommodate subsequent publication in journals that would not consider results that have been published in preliminary form in conference proceedings. Such papers must be submitted and formatted just like papers submitted for full-text publication.

Simultaneous submission of results to another conference with published proceedings is not allowed. Results previously published or presented at another archival conference prior to WINE 2021, or published (or accepted for publication) at a journal prior to the submission deadline of WINE 2021, will not be considered. Simultaneous submission of results to a journal is allowed only if the authors intend to publish the paper as a one-page abstract in WINE 2021. Papers that are accepted and appear as a one-page abstract can be subsequently submitted for publication in a journal but may not be submitted to any other conference that has a published proceeding.

Program PC co-chairs: Michal Feldman (chair), Hu Fu and Inbal Talgam-Cohen

NetEcon’21, the 16th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation, will take place on July 23, 2021. NetEcon’21 is a workshop of EC’21, the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, which will be held on July 19-23, 2021, co-located with the 6th World Congress of the Game Theory Society. The aim of NetEcon is to foster discussions on the application of economic and game-theoretic models and principles to address challenges in the development of networks and network-based applications and services.

Details regarding submission rules and dates can be found at https://netecon21.gametheory.online/. A novelty compared with prior editions of the workshop is that papers that were already formatted for and submitted to EC’21 or SIGMETRICS’21 may retain this format (for submission) if submitted together with all the reviews (see submission guidelines for details).

Call for Participation and Poster submission:

The 32nd annual Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory  will be held online July 5 – 8, 2021. This year the conference will emphasize recent research at the intersection of computer science and economics. We will also celebrate the recent Nobel prize to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, who will both deliver an extended version of their Nobel prize speech.

The conference will begin and end with a reception in honor of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson. The schedule is available here. The main program will consist of invited papers and talks.

We invite graduate students and junior faculty to submit recent work for poster sessions which will be an integral part of the conference. The deadline for submission to the poster session is Friday, April 30^th, 5pm est. The program for the poster session will be announced, Monday, May 17^th.

If you would like to attend any of the sessions, please Login or Create Account and RSVP for the events you would like to attend. As the conference date approaches, you will receive an email with more details on accessing and navigating Virtual Chair, the online, interactive event space that will host the conference.

Please feel free to share this information broadly. We look forward to your participation!

Dirk Bergemann and Michal Feldman

Organizers

The EC 2021 conference invites proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC). EC’21 will be held either virtually or in a hybrid format. In the latter case, tutorial/workshop organizers will have the opportunity to decide whether to hold their event in person or remotely.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide an opportunity to educate the community about emerging topics of interest, or about topics from related fields that merit additional attention from the EC community.  A tutorial is an opportunity to invite colleagues and young researchers to get excited about a well-defined topic, to prepare them to dive into the literature and to guide them to the most exciting developments and open problems. Typically, tutorials run for half a day (3-3.5 hours) and consist of a series of presentations by experts in the field.

Tutorial proposals should contain:

• the title of the tutorial
• the names, contact information, and short biographies of the organizers
• a description of the tutorial theme
• the organization/format of the tutorial
• any related tutorials that have been run
• required facilities for the tutorial

Tutorial proposals should be emailed to ec21-tutorial-chairs@acm.org.

Workshops

Workshops provide an opportunity to bring together researchers to discuss emerging areas of research in an informal forum. Workshop schedules should be designed to promote discussion and debate. A workshop may include invited talks, contributed talks, panel discussions, poster sessions, open problem sessions, presentations of work in progress, or any other activities that stimulate new ideas for research. It is up to the workshop organizers to determine the format and technical content of each workshop and to solicit contributions, but we encourage workshops that devote some time to contributed content.

Workshop proposals should contain:

• the title of the workshop
• the names, contact information, and short biographies of the organizers
• the names of confirmed or candidate participants
• a description of the workshop theme
• the reviewing process for participants
• the organization/format of the workshop
• any previous versions of the workshop
• required facilities for the workshop
• the desired workshop length (half-day, full day, etc.)

For accepted workshops, the desired length will be honored as closely as possible.

We especially encourage proposals that bring together participants with diverse backgrounds and experience.

Workshop proposals should be emailed to ec21-workshop-chairs@acm.org.

Key dates:

March 1, 2021: Due date for submitting workshop or tutorial proposal

March 22, 2021: Tutorial & workshop proposal accept/reject notifications

July 19, 2021: Conference Tutorials

July 20-22, 2021: Conference technical program

July 23, 2021: Conference Workshops

Tutorial co-chairs

Shengwu Li, Harvard University

Sigal Oren, Ben-Gurion University

Workshop co-chairs

Hu Fu, University of British Columbia

Annie Liang, Northwestern University

Via Pieter Kleer:

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21st Max Planck Summer School:
Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADFOCS 2020)

August 24 – 28, 2020

Saarbruecken, Germany

THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT

http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conference/adfocs
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About ADFOCS
ADFOCS is an international summer school that has been held annually for the last twenty years at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) in Saarbruecken, Germany. It is organized as part of the activities of the MPII, in particular the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), MPII’s graduate program. The purpose of this summer school is to introduce young researchers to topics which are the focus of current research in theoretical computer science. We bring together leading researchers in the field and international participants at the graduate level and above. This year’s focus is on:

*** Market Design and Computational Fair Division ***
Program
Our invited speakers give five 60-min lectures with subsequent exercise and discussion sessions. These sessions will take place daily from 14:30 to 18:30 UTC+2 (CEST) in the week of August 24-28. On some days there will be a social event after the regular schedule. This year’s speakers are:

* Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research Lab, New York City, USA
* Jugal Garg and Ruta Mehta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Registration
This year registration is free as the event takes place virtually. Nevertheless, registration is MANDATORY and can be done through the website (at the latest August 10)

Contact
The homepage of ADFOCS, including forms for registration, can be found at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conference/adfocs

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the ADFOCS team by sending an email to adfocs@mpi-inf.mpg.de

Organizers: Cosmina Croitoru, Sandor Kisfaludi-Bak and Pieter Kleer