Foci: Multiagent Systems, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Cryptographic Protocols
The PAMAS research group is devoted to studying distributed protocols that allow autonomous entities to aggregate their conflicting preferences. Well-known examples of conventional preference aggregation among humans are auctions and voting. Scientific fields that traditionally deal with preference aggregation, such as social choice theory, game theory, mechanism design, and implementation theory reside somewhere on the boundaries of economics, mathematics, and political science. During the last years, preference aggregation has experienced a dramatic increase of attention from computer scientists coming from various fields such as artificial intelligence, theory, or networking. Computer science extends existing research by introducing computational and communication efficiency, decentralized mechanism execution, correctness, privacy, or new applications like scheduling, file-sharing, or knowledge transfer. The lab is hosted by the chair for theoretical computer science at the University of Munich and is funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) within the Emmy Noether Program.
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Staff
Former Members
Students
- Sarah Bluhme (FoPra: "A graphical tool for computing tournament solutions"), completed 11/2008
- Nico Grupp (DA about game-theoretical aspects of game balance, joint supervision with Axel Hoppe)
- Maximilian Mair ("Implementing the tournament equilibrium set")
- Maximilian Meier (FoPra: "Computing Nash equilibria of normal-form games using support enumeration"), completed 12/2006
- Boris Turovskiy (DA about blocking coalitions in coalitional games)
- Eimund Waldemar (DA: "The computational complexity of Nash equilibria in games with few outcomes", joint supervision with Martin Schottenloher), completed 07/2008
- Philip Wassenberg (FoPra: "Implementation of a cryptographic comparison-protocol", DA: "Implementation and evaluation of cryptographic auction protocols"), completed 05/2007, 10/2008
Courses
Visitors
- Edith Elkind, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (September 2009)
- Edith Hemaspaandra, Rochester Institute of Technology (July 2009)
- Lane Hemaspaandra, University of Rochester (July 2009)
- Davide Grossi, University of Luxembourg (November 2008)
- Mathijs de Weerdt, Delft University of Technology (November 2008)
- Igor Razgon, University College Cork (October 2008)
- Xinhui Wang, University of Twente (September 2008)
- Ariel Procaccia, Hebrew University (October 2007)
- Vincent Conitzer, Duke University (December 2006)
- Jan Remy, ETH Zurich (August 2006)
- Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg (July 2006)
Location
Computer Science Department
Theoretical Computer Science
University of Munich
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich, Germany
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