Pillar IV Seminar BAGSS (Di 18-20)

Dozent/in:

Ulrich Sieberer

Angaben:

Seminar/Oberseminar, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

VS: Steuerung technischer Systeme: PWB-ST-VS: Algorithms for Economics and Politics & Economics and Politics of Algorithms

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Andreas Jungherr, Florian Herold

Angaben:

Vorlesung/Seminar, 2 SWS

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, F21/03.81

Inhalt:

This course (lecture + tutorial) offers an introduction to key concepts of algorithmic design and computations complexity in the context of economics and politics: algorithmic learning and decision making, mechanism- and market design, networks, simulations, public key cryptography, digital signatures, and electronic voting.
Topics (tentative):
• Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity
• The Gale-Shapley Algorithm and Matching Markets
• Basics of Network Theory and the Page-Rank Algorithm
• Decision Making under Uncertainty, Bayes Rule, and Learning
• Micro-targeting in Political Campaigns
• Algorithmic Amplification, Attention, Newsfeed, Social Signals
• Big Data, Data Scoring, Risk Predictions, Insurance, and Inequality
• Basic Ideas of Mechanism Design, Auctions, and Algorithmic Game Theory
• Hash Functions, Public Key Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Blockchain, Electronic Voting
• Basics of Network Theory and the Page-Rank Algorithm
• Decision Making under Uncertainty, Bayes Rule, and Learning
• Micro-targeting in Political Campaigns
• Algorithmic Amplification, Attention, Newsfeed, Social Signals
• Big Data, Data Scoring, Risk Predictions, Insurance, and Inequality
• Basic Ideas of Mechanism Design, Auctions, and Algorithmic Game Theory
• Hash Functions, Public Key Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Blockchain, Electronic Voting

Empfohlene Literatur:

Dasgupta, S., C. Papadimitriou, and U. Vazirani (2006), Algorithms, Mc Graw Hill Higher Education Roughgarden, Tim (2016),Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory, Cambridge Univeristy Press Moore, Christopher and Stephan Mertens (2017), The Nature of Computation, Oxford Univeristy Press