Jérôme Lang | LIG - Université Grenoble Alpes

Computational social choice: ten little talks (a tribute to Agatha Christie)

Jeudi 11 Janvier 2024

Abstract

Computational social choice is a research field at the intersection of artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science and economics. It consists of analysing problems arising from the aggregation of preferences of a group of agents from a computational perspective. Some of its subfields are various forms of voting, public decision making (e.g., participatory budgeting), fair division of resources, and matching with preferences (e.g., university-student matching). The interplay of computer science and social choice has not only lead to developing algorithms for collective decision making: it has helped reshaping and revitalising the field, by identifying new paradigms, new problems, new objects of study. I will briefly present the field and then I will give some examples of such new paradigms, problems, or objects of study. The ten little talks mentioned in the title refer to potential talks: I will (obviously!) talk about less than ten topics, but these will be selected out of ten candidates by the attendance through a vote (on a voting platform developed at LIG).

Biography

Jérôme Lang est directeur de recherche au CNRS depuis 2008 (et au CNRS depuis 1991). Son laboratoire d'affiliation est le LAMSADE (CNRS, PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine).Son domaine de recherche principal est le choix social computationnel (ainsi que, dans le passé, la représentation des connaissances et le raisonnement automatisé). Il a été président du comité de programme de International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) en 2018. Il est ou a été éditeur associé de Artificial Intelligence Journal (2010-2016), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2009-2015), Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2008-) et Social Choice and Welfare (2016-). Il est co-éditeur du Handbook of Computational Social Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Date et Lieu

Jeudi 11 Janvier 2024, à 14:00
Amphithéâtre de la MACI, campus universitaire

Organisé par

Equipe des Keynote Speeches
Raphaël BLEUSE
Sophie DUPUY-CHESSA
Alain TCHANA
Dominique VAUFREYDAZ

Intervenant

Jérôme LANG
Laboratoire d'Analyse et Modélisation des Systèmes pour l'Aide à la Décision (LAMSADE)