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Radcliffe Seminar on Revealed and Latent Preferences: Economic and Computational Approaches

May 14-15, 2004, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge MA
Unless otherwise stated, all activities will be in the Gilman Room, Agassiz House, in Radcliffe Yard. 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA Directions



Overview

This event will bring together a small group of researchers with diverse backgrounds that are interested in the interplay between preference elicitation and bounded-rationality. Specifically, we hope the seminar will allow researchers from within computer science and economics to discuss methodologies and theories for bounded-rational actions and behaviors. Part of the agenda is to understand the implications for preference elicitation, which is often a first step in understanding the economic implications of policy decisions and of economic mechanism design. The seminar will be organized around overview talks about methodologies from different fields, but with plenty of time devoted to free-flowing discussion.

We invite your suggestions on the content and form of this two-day workshop.

Schedule

Friday, May 14.

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
9.30-9.45am Opening Remarks
9.45-10.45am Craig Boutilier: "Computational Procedures for Optimization and Elicitation with Uncertain Preferences"
10.45-11.15am Coffee Break
11.15-12.15pm Chris Shannon: "What to Optimize if you Must."
12.15-1.30pm Lunch, Cronkhite Graduate Center Living Room, 6 Ash Street
1.30-3pm Decision theory Short Presentations: Jon Doyle, Andrea Wilson, Peter Haddawy, Jerry Green, David Parkes
3-3.30pm Coffee Break
3.30-5pm Discussion: Preference Elicitation Methods
6.00pm Group Dinner - Sandrines, 6.30pm, 8 Holyoke Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Ph: 617-497-5300

Saturday, May 15.

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9-10.30am Game theory Short Presentations: Attila Ambrus, Drew Fudenberg, Avi Pfeffer, Kate Larson, David Laibson
10.30-11am Coffee Break
11-12.15pm Discussion: Latent Preferences vs. Revealed Preferences
12.15-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-2.30pm David Laibson: The Psychology of Preference Elicitation
2.30-3pm Closing Discussion

Relevant Papers by Participants

Presentations

Participants

PROF. ATTILA AMBRUS Harvard University Economics Department 1805 Cambridge St., #309 E: ambrus@fas.harvard.edu

ASSAF BEN-SHOHAM Graduate Student Harvard University Economics Department Cambridge, MA 02138 E: shoham@fas.harvard.edu

PROF. CRAIG BOUTILIER University of Toronto Dept. of Computer Science Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G5 Canada E: cebly@cs.toronoto.edu

JACOMO CORBO Doctoral Student Harvard University Div. of Engineering & Applied Sciences 33 Oxford Street, Room 238 Cambridge MA 02138 E: corbo@fas.harvard.edu

PROF. JON DOYLE North Carolina State University Dept. of Computer Science Venture III, #173 900 Main Campus Dr. Raleigh, NC 8207 E: jon_doyle@ncsu.edu

PROF. DREW FUDENBERG Harvard University Economics Department Littauer 310 Cambridge MA 02138 E: dfudenberg@harvard.edu

KOBI GAL Doctoral Student Div. of Engineering & Applied Sciences 33 Oxford Street, Room 217 Cambridge MA 02138 E: gal@eecs.harvard.edu

PROF. JERRY GREEN Harvard Business School Negotiation, Organizations, & Markets Baker Library 266 Soldiers Field Boston, MA 02163 E: jgreen@hbs.edu

PROF. PETER HADDAWY Asian Institute of Technology P. O. Box 4 Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 Thailand E: haddawy@ait.ac.th

DANIEL HOJMAN Graduate Student Harvard University Economics Department Cambridge, MA 02138 E: hojman@fas.harvard.edu

LAURA KANG Doctoral Student Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2 Peabody Terrace, #1002 Cambridge, MA 02138 E: kang@eecs.harvard.edu

SEBASTIEN LAHAIE Doctoral Student Harvard University Div. of Engineering & Applied Sciences 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 E: slahaie@eecs.harvard.edu

PROF. DAVID LAIBSON Harvard University Department of Economics Littauer M-14 Cambridge, MA 02138 E: dlaibson@harvard.edu

Dr. KATE LARSON Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of Computer Science 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E: klarson@cs.cmu.edu

LOIZOS MICHAEL Harvard University Div. of Engineering & Applied Sciences 33 Oxford Street, Room 215 Cambridge MA 02138 E: loizos@eecs.harvard.edu

MICHAEL MCGEACHIE Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 E: mmcgeach@csail.mit.edu

PROF. DAVID PARKES Harvard University Div. of Engineering & Applied Sciences 33 Oxford Street, Room 229 Cambridge MA 02138 E: parkes@eecs.harvard.edu

PROF. AVI PFEFFER Harvard University Div. of Engineering & Applied Sciences 33 Oxford Street, Room 251 Cambridge MA 02138 E: pfeffer@fas.harvard.edu

LAURA SERBAN Undergraduate Harvard University Computer Science Department Cambridge, MA 02138 E: serban@fas.harvard.edu

PROF. CHRIS SHANNON University of California Department of Economics 549 Evans Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 E: cshannon@econ.berkeley.edu

PROF. ANDREA WILSON University of Chicago Department of Economics 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 E: awilson@uchicago.edu

Organizers

Jerry Green, John Leverett Professor in the University, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
David Parkes, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Avi Pfeffer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Contact

David Parkes, parkes@eecs.harvard.edu