1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice
Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2006
    

Programme

Jump directly to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. The programme is also available as a PDF file.

The COMSOC-2006 programme consists of five invited talks and the presentation of 38 contributed papers, which have been selected from amongst the 48 submissions received by the programme committee. The slides of most talks are now available. We also have some photos of the workshop.

Registration: from Wednesday 08:15    Social Dinner: Thursday 20:00 (details)
Welcome: Wednesday 08:50-09:00 Farewell Drinks: Friday 17:15-18:30

Each invited talk is 50 minutes long and followed by a 10 minute break. Contributed talks have been allocated 20 minutes each, including questions and change-over to the next speaker. Here is a rough schedule of the programme (see the full programme for the exact time slots):

Wednesday morning Thursday morning Friday morning
Francesca Rossi (invited) Noam Nisan (invited) Boi Faltings (invited)
Hard Problems in Computing Voting Rules 1 Mechanism Design and Related Issues Hard Problems in Computing Voting Rules 2
Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
Computational Barriers to Manipulation and Control Ranking Systems / Designing Voting Rules Resource Allocation and Fair Division 2
Lunch Lunch Lunch
Wednesday afternoon Thursday afternoon Friday afternoon
Harrie de Swart (invited) Steven Brams (invited) Fair Representation / Preference Elicitation
Logics for Social Choice Resource Allocation and Fair Division 1 Coffee Break
Coffee Break Coffee Break Coalition Formation / Experimental Computations
Strategy-Proofness Judgment Aggregation and Related Issues  

Wednesday, 6 December 2006

 8:50-9:00:  Welcome   (Registration: from 8:15 onwards)
 9:00-9:50:  Invited Talk   (Chair: Krzysztof Apt)
 10:00-10:40:  Hard Problems in Computing Voting Rules 1   (Chair: Jörg Rothe)
 10:40-11:10:  Coffee Break
 11:10-12:30:  Computational Barriers to Manipulation and Control   (Chair: Michael Trick)
 12:30-14:00:  Lunch
 14:00-14:50:  Invited Talk   (Chair: Hans Peters)
 15:00-15:40:  Logics for Social Choice   (Chair: Johan van Benthem)
 15:40-16:10:  Coffee Break
 16:10-17:30:  Strategy-Proofness   (Chair: Christian List)

Thursday, 7 December 2006

 9:00-9:50:  Invited Talk   (Chair: Vincent Conitzer)
 10:00-11:00:  Mechanism Design and Related Issues   (Chair: Noam Nisan)
 11:00-11:30:  Coffee Break
 11:30-12:30: Ranking Systems / Designing Voting Rules   (Chair: Vangelis Markakis)
 12:30-14:00:  Lunch
 14:00-14:50:  Invited Talk   (Chair: Eric Pacuit)
 15:00-15:40:  Resource Allocation and Fair Division 1   (Chair: Ulle Endriss)
 15:40-16:10:  Coffee Break
 16:10-17:30:  Judgment Aggregation and Related Issues   (Chair: Harrie de Swart)
 20:00-late:  Social Dinner   (details)

Friday, 8 December 2006

 9:00-9:50:  Invited Talk   (Chair: Yann Chevaleyre)
 10:00-11:00:  Hard Problems in Computing Voting Rules 2   (Chair: Edith Hemaspaandra)
 11:00-11:30:  Coffee Break
 11:30-12:30:  Resource Allocation and Fair Division 2   (Chair: Nicolas Maudet)
 12:30-14:00:  Lunch
 14:00-15:20:  Fair Representation / Preference Elicitation   (Chair: Jérôme Lang)
 15:20-15:50:  Coffee Break
 15:50-17:10:  Coalition Formation / Experimental Computations   (Chair: Jan-Willem Romeijn)
 17:15-18:30:  Farewell Drinks   (3rd floor lobby)