The 1st IJCAI-PRICAI Workshop on Applied Mechanism Design (WAMD)


The aim of the workshop is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research and proposal in the fundamental challenges of mechanism design for real-world applications such as resource allocation, task allocation, and preference aggregation. As a crucial field of game theory, research on mechanism design has brought many novel solutions to the practice such as Google's ad auctions, kidney exchanges, student-school matching systems, online recommendation systems, online QnA systems, and digital/sharing economy platforms. Mechanism design has played an essential role in these systems to, for example, incentivize the users to behave in a desirable manner and optimize the resource/task allocations. Due to the tremendous development of IoT and social networks, system design has to consider the users' swift reaction and collision formation via their social interactions and also the heavy computational costs. We need to investigate new mechanisms to handle these new challenges in both theory and practice. Ultimately, we look for AI systems such as autonomous driving networks which interact with and make decisions on behalf of us. All the systems together will build the foundation of the future smart cities.

Invited Speakers

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Haris Aziz

Scientia Associate Professor
University of New South Wales, Australia
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John P. Dickerson

Assistant Professor
University of Maryland, US
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Hadi Hosseini

Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania State University, US
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Minming Li

Professor
City University of Hong Kong, China


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Weiran Shen

Assistant Professor
Renmin University, China
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Haifeng Xu

Alan Batson Assistant Professor
University of Virginia, US

Program

Date: 2021.01.08 8:00--13:00 (UTC+8)          Ways of participation: Yellow Wing-South 2 room on Virtual Chair;  Live Address: https://live.bilibili.com/71501
Order Time(UTC+8) Title Speaker Host
8:00 — 8:10 Opening
1 8:10 — 8:45 Mechanism Design for Selling Information (video) Professor Haifeng Xu
University of Virginia
Professor Lirong Xia
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2 8:45 — 9:20 Deep Learning for the Design of Fair Auctions (video) Professor John P. Dickerson
University of Maryland
Professor Lirong Xia
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
9:20 — 9:30 Break
3 9:30 — 10:05 Fair and Efficient Allocations under Lexicographic Preferences (video) Professor Hadi Hosseini
Pennsylvania State University
Professor Dengji Zhao
ShanghaiTech University
4 10:05 — 10:40 The Vigilant Eating Rule: A General Approach For Probabilistic Economic Design With Constraints (video) Professor Haris Aziz
University of New South Wales
Professor Dengji Zhao
ShanghaiTech University
10:40 — 10:50 Break
5 10:50 — 11:25 When to Follow the Tip: Security Games with Strategic Informants (video) Professor Weiran Shen
Renmin University of China
Professor Dengji Zhao
ShanghaiTech University
6 11:25 — 12:00 Strategyproof Mechanisms for Activity Scheduling (video) Professor Minming Li
City University of Hong Kong
Professor Dengji Zhao
ShanghaiTech University
12:00 — 12:10 Closing

Orgnization Committee

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Pingzhong Tang

Associate Professor
Tsinghua University, China
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Lirong Xia

Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
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Dengji Zhao

Tenure-track Assistant Professor
ShanghaiTech University, China