Schedule

Subject to change

• Sept 13: Introduction (slides .ppt, .pdf, handout style .pdf)


• Sept 15: Game Theory (slides .ppt, .pdf, handout style .pdf)


• Sept 20: Social Choice (slides .ppt, .pdf handout style .pdf ) Homework 1 posted Due September 29.


• Sept 22: Mechanism Design Review article [Parkes 01] (.pdf) (Slides .ppt , .pdf, handout .pdf)


• Sept 27: Mechanism Design (Slides .ppt , .pdf , handout style .pdf )


• Sept 29: Auction Theory Review article [Wolfstetter 94] (Slides .ppt , .pdf, handout style pdf


• Oct 4: Combinatorial Auctions: Winner Determination [Sandholm 02]* [SS 03] [ATY 00] [RPH 98]* Peter Olsar (talk)


• Oct 6: Combinatorial Auctions: Approximating single shot auctions [NR 00] Dana Wilkinson


• Oct 13: Combinatorial Auctions: Approximating single-shot auctions [LOS 02] Kate


• Oct 18: Bidding Languages [Nisan 04] Shahram Esmaeilsabzali (talk)


• Oct 20: Iterative auction design [Parkes 04] Alexei Ramotar (talk) Project Proposals due


• Oct 25: Preference elicitation [CS 02], [BSS 04] Tyrel Russell (talk)


• Oct 27: Preference elicitation [LP 04]* [NS04]* (full paper) Jella Pfeiffer (talk)


• Nov 1: False name bids [YSM 04] Matt Enns (talk)


• Nov 3: Selling digital goods [GHK+ 04] Ali Echihabi (talk)


• Nov 8: Trading agents Trading Agent Competition, [BGNT04], [VS03], [PS03] Bassam Aoun (talk)


• Nov 10: Computationally limited agents [Larson 04] Kate


• Nov 15: Reputation Mechanisms [Dellarocas 01]* [JF 04] [RZFK00] Kevin Regan (talk ppt) (talk pdf)


• Nov 17: Automated Mechanism Design [Sandholm 03], [CS04] Dimitri Mostinski (talk)


• Nov 22: Applications: Scheduling [Porter 04] [WWW+ 01]* Elodie Fourquet (talk)


• Nov 24: Applications: Dealing with Spam [GR04] [LvAW04] Omar Zia Khan (talk)


• Nov 29: Applications: P2P [MG-M 04], [FLSC 04] Radoslav Radoulov (talk)


• Dec 1: Project Presentations


• Dec 6: Project Presentations and Conclusions