Saturday, November 12, 2011

Market design at INFORMS, Nov 13-15 in Charlotte NC

When I got my Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1974, it looked like game theory might find a natural home in OR and Management Science. Shortly after, the new journal MOR was formed, with Bob Aumann as the area editor for game theory.  But...things didn't turn out that way, and game theory caught on in Economics much more than in OR. And game theory eventually gave birth to the emerging field of market design.

It looks like market design may be a theme that brings game theory back into OR/MS. Here are some sessions to be presented at the forthcoming INFORMS meetings...

https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/clustersessionlist.asp?clnno=2672&mmnno=206

Cluster Information

Title: AuctionsChair: Bob Day,Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, 2100 Hillside Rd, Unit 1041, Storrs CT 06269-1041, United States of America, bob.day@business.uconn.edu
Co-Chair: Martin Bichler,TU Munich, Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching 85748, Germany, bichler@in.tum.de

Sunday Nov 13, 08:00 - 09:30 : Combinatorial Auction Design and Applications IChair: Dries Goossens,K.U.Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, Leuven 3000, Belgium, Dries.Goossens@econ.kuleuven.be
Sunday Nov 13, 11:00 - 12:30 : Core-Selecting AuctionsChair: Bob Day,Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, 2100 Hillside Rd, Unit 1041, Storrs CT 06269-1041, United States of America, bob.day@business.uconn.edu
Sunday Nov 13, 13:30 - 15:00 : Spectrum AuctionsChair: Bob Day,Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, 2100 Hillside Rd, Unit 1041, Storrs CT 06269-1041, United States of America, bob.day@business.uconn.edu
Sunday Nov 13, 16:30 - 18:00 : Panel on Research Challenges in Market DesignChair: Martin Bichler,TU Munich, Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching 85748, Germany, bichler@in.tum.de
Monday Nov 14, 08:00 - 09:30 : Combinatorial Auction Design and Applications IIChair: Benjamin Lubin,Assistant Professor, Boston University, 595 Commonwealth Ave, Information Systems Department, Boston MA 02215, United States of America, blubin@bu.edu
Monday Nov 14, 11:00 - 12:30 : Procurement Auctions and Combinatorial ExchangesChair: Damian Beil,Associate Professor, University of Michigan, 701 Tappan St, Ann Arbor MI 48109, United States of America, dbeil@umich.edu
Monday Nov 14, 13:30 - 15:00 : Algorithmic Game TheoryChair: Kevin Leyton-Brown,University of British Columbia, 201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada, kevinlb@cs.ubc.ca
Monday Nov 14, 16:30 - 18:00 : Behavioral Market DesignChair: Kemal Guler,HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Rd MS 1040, Palo Alto CA, United States of America, kemal.guler@hp.com
Tuesday Nov 15, 08:00 - 09:30 : Auctions and Trading AgentsChair: Wolf Ketter,Assistant Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, T9-07, Rotterdam 3062PA, Netherlands, WKetter@rsm.nl
Tuesday Nov 15, 11:00 - 12:30 : Algorithmic and Implementation Issues in AuctionsChair: Sasa Pekec,Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham NC, United States of America, pekec@duke.edu
Tuesday Nov 15, 13:30 - 15:00 : Auctions and their ApplicationsChair: Ravi Bapna,Professor, University of Minnesota, 4600 Washburn Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55410, United States of America, rbapna@umn.edu
Tuesday Nov 15, 16:30 - 18:00 : Auction Design with Multi-dimensional TypesChair: Sasa Pekec,Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham NC, United States of America, pekec@duke.edu

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