Foundations of Mechanism Design
March 2, 2008, Department of Computer Science and Automation, CSA Seminar Hall, First Floor, CSA-254, IISc, Bangalore 9 AM - 1 PM
Mechanism design, an important tool in
microeconomics, has recently found widespread applications
in modeling and solving decentralized design
problems in many branches of engineering, notably
computer science, electronic commerce, supply chain management,
network economics, and services science and engineering.
Mechanism design is concerned with settings where a
social planner faces the problem of aggregating
the announced preferences of multiple agents into a collective
decision when the agents exhibit strategic behavior.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a tutorial
introduction to the foundations and key results in mechanism design
theory.
The tutorial will be presented by Prof. Y. Narahari (IISc, Bangalore),
Dr. Dinesh Garg (IBM IRL, Bangalore),
Dr. T. S. Chandrashekar (GM India Science Lab, Bangalore), Ramasuri
Narayanam (Doctoral student, Department of CSA, IISc), Sujit Gujar
(Doctoral Student, Department of CSA, IISc), and Hastagiri Prakash (Guruji.com,
Bangalore).