[DMANET] Fwd: [sigecom-talk] The first Workshop on the Distortion and Information-Elicitation Tradeoffs (DIET) - Call for participation and short talks

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Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to participate in the first Workshop on the
Distortion and Information-Elicitation Tradeoffs (DIET), which will be held
online in conjunction with the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and
Computation (EC 2020). The workshop will take place on 20-22 July
(Monday-Wednesday) with live presentations on a zoom meeting (approximately
3 hours per day). The presentations will be recorded and will be available
to the participants at any time, during and shortly after the workshop.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/diet-workshop/

Scope:

In 2006, Procaccia and Rosenschein considered the setting in which the
agents have explicit numerical values for the possible outcomes, yet they
only report their linear orderings over them. To compare different
aggregation mechanisms, they introduced the notion of distortion, which
quantifies the inefficiency of using only ordinal information when trying
to maximize the social welfare, i.e., the sum of the underlying values of
the agents for the chosen outcome. Since then, this research area has
flourished (counting more than 30 published papers in EC, AAAI, IJCAI, and
NeurIPS) and bounds on the distortion have been obtained for a wide variety
of fundamental scenarios.

This workshop will serve as a platform for presenting some of the most
influential work on distortion and also recent developments on the
tradeoffs between information and efficiency. The goal is to initiate
interesting discussions and collaborations by bringing together researchers
with significant contribution to the literature of distortion, and people
who are interested in familiarizing themselves with the topic.

Confirmed Speakers:

Georgios Amanatidis (University of Essex)
Elliot Anshelevich (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Gerdus Benade (Boston University)
Umang Bhaskar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Yu Cheng (University of Illinois)
Vasilis Gkatzelis (Drexel University)
Kamesh Munagala (Duke University)
Nisarg Shah (University of Toronto)
Alexandros Voudouris (University of Essex)

Participation:

To participate (and obtain access to the password-protected zoom link),
please send us a participation request to dietworkshop2020@gmail.com. As
with all EC'20 events, registration is free for ACM SIGecom members
(SIGecom annual membership is $10 for regular members and $5 for students).
See here for more information:
http://ec20.sigecom.org/participation/registration/

Short talks:

Besides the main talks of the workshop, we invite short talks
(approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on their number) related to the
theme of the workshop. Everyone is welcome to give a short talk, but if
there is a lot of demand, priority will be given to PhD students and
postdocs. If you are interested in giving a talk, please send us a request
to dietworkshop2020@gmail.com with title "DIET Short Talk" and including

- The title and abstract for the talk
- A link to a version of the paper (if available)
- The publication venue (if any)

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

The organizers,

Elliot Anshelevich
Aris Filos-Ratsikas
Nisarg Shah
Alexandros A. Voudouris

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