Collective Decision Making

Catalog description

Students will learn about theoretical approaches from across computer science, economics, and operations research to group decision settings, in particular in voting and the fair allocation of resources. This course will mainly focus on theoretical approaches to these topics. We will study key solution concepts from computational social choice theory, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, and fair division: approaching them with tools from optimization, algorithms, and probability. The course will cover the foundations of these concepts, as well as cutting-edge research results based on these concepts. As part of the course, students will read, present, and discuss research papers, and perform a research project.