DIMACS-LAMSADE partnership |
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Two leading research centers, DIMACS (the Center for Discrete
Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, based at Rutgers University),
and LAMSADE (the Laboratoire d'Analyse
et Modélisation de Systèmes
pour l'Aide à la Décision,
a CNRS research center based at Université Paris Dauphine)
have initiated an international collaboration organized around modern
computer science applications of methods developed by decision theorists, in
particular methods involving consensus and associated order relations. The
project seeks to explore the connections between computer science and
decision theory, develop new decision-theory-based methodologies relevant to
the scope of modern CS problems, and investigate their applications to
problems of computer science and also to problems of the social sciences
which could benefit from new ideas and techniques. The project features
exchange visits of graduate students and junior researchers and several
workshops aimed at introducing a broader community to the topics of the collaboration.
After several years of cooperation and three successful workshops (in 2004,
2006 and 2008) the project is now more specifically oriented to Algorithmic
Decision Theory. This is also the main subject of the COST Action
IC0602 and the DIMACS Special Focus
on the same subject to which both laboratories participate. Broader Impacts: The
project is expected to have impact well beyond the small number of people
participating in the exchange visits through a center-to-center exchange that
will involve a large number of scientists associated with the two centers in
the related scientific discussions and interchanges. Moreover, the impact
will be broadened through the workshops that will introduce many of those
both associated with and outside the two collaborating centers to this new
field. The results should be broadly useful in emerging information
technology applications, in areas of economics and political science where
methods of decision theory have traditionally been applied, and in new areas
of application of decision theory such as to problems of epidemiology and
bio-terrorism. If you want more details on the original
project see here [.pdf] |