CMSC498T

Prerequisite: CMSC351. Recommended: MATH240, CMSC320, or CMSC422. How do we allocate food to food banks, children to schools, organs to patients, residents to hospitals, security forces to patrol routes, and credit to multiple authors of an open source project-all in the face of competing incentives affecting selfish participants? Can we design mechanisms for these problems that perform well in practice, are computationally tractable, and whose workings and results are understandable by humans? To answer these questions, we devise models and solutions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, economics, and theoretical computer science.