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| Vincent Conitzer, Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Computer Science and Economics
- Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2014):
- COMPSCI 590.04, ADVANCED TOPICS IN CPS
Synopsis
- Social Sciences 311, W 10:05 AM-11:20 AM; Soc/Psych 126, F 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Teaching (Fall 2014):
- COMPSCI 290.01, TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Synopsis
- LSRC D106, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Specialties:
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Microeconomic Theory
Microeconomics
Computational Economics
- Research Interests: (Computational aspects of) game theory, mechanism design, social choice theory, auctions and exchanges, electronic commerce
Professor Vincent Conitzer's research focuses on issues in the intersection of computer science (especially artificial intelligence) and economics. This includes the design of new marketplaces and other negotiation protocols that allow humans and software agents to express their preferences naturally and accurately, and that generate good outcomes based on these preferences. It also includes the design of software agents that can act strategically in settings where multiple parties all pursue their own interests. This requires the use of concepts from game theory, as well as operationalizing these concepts by finding efficient algorithms for computing the corresponding solutions. Finally, his research includes the study of all settings in computer science in which multiple parties will act in their own self-interest, as well as the design of incentive mechanisms to reach good outcomes in spite of such behavior.
- Keywords:
- intersection of computer science and economics • game theory • mechanism design • electronic commerce • artificial intelligence • multiagent systems • auctions & exchanges • public goods & externalities • expressive markets/negotiation • preference elicitation • coalition formation • voting • resource-bounded reasoning • learning in games • computational & communication complexity • game playing • optimization • search • machine learning
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