New Directions in Social Choice at EC 2024
Schedule
8:00-8:30
Breakfast
8:30-8:55
Invited Talk
Federated Learning as Public Decision Making
Ruta Mehta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
8:55-10:00
Metric Distortion Under Probabilistic Voting
Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar (Stanford University), Mohak Goyal (Stanford University)
Fair Division with Two-Sided Preferences
Ayumi Igarashi (University of Tokyo), Yasushi Kawase (University of Tokyo), Warut Suksompong (National University of Singapore), Hanna Sumita (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Perceived Fairness in Envy-Free Allocations of Indivisible Goods
Hadi Hosseini (Penn State University), Joshua Kavner (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Sujoy Sikdar (Binghamton University), Rohit Vaish (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Lirong Xia (RPI)
Learning to Manipulate under Limited Information
Wesley H. Holliday (UC Berkeley), Alexander Kristoffersen (UC Berkeley), Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland)
Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
Luise Ge (Washington University in St. Louis), Daniel Halpern (Harvard University), Evi Micha (Harvard University), Ariel Procaccia (Harvard University), Itai Shapira (Harvard University), Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Washington University in St. Louis), Junlin Wu (Washington University)
10:00-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-10:55
Invited Talk
Ten Years of the Stanford Participatory Budgeting Platform Learnings and Future Directions
Lodewijk Gelauff (Stanford University)
10:55-11:35
Core Stability in Participatory Budgeting: Approximations and Open Questions
Kamesh Munagala (Duke University), Yiheng Shen (Duke University)Proportional Fairness in Non-Centroid Clustering
Ioannis Caragiannis (Aarhus University), Evi Micha (Harvard University), Nisarg Shah (University of Toronto)Federated Assemblies
Daniel Halpern (Harvard University), Ariel Procaccia (Harvard University), Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science), Nimrod Talmon (Ben-Gurion University)
11:35-12:00
Open problem session
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Poster session
The New Directions in Social Choice workshop, co-located with EC'24 in New Haven, aims to bring together researchers working on topics related to voting and social choice. With a focus on recent developments, new application domains, and new analysis frameworks, the workshop will provide a platform for discussing the latest breakthroughs and charting directions for future work in the field.
Workshop Theme
Social choice theory has been studying collective decision making since the 1950s. Recent progress has deepened our understanding along several axes of innovation:
Social choice theory has been applied to new application domains, and theoretical progress (e.g., voting in combinatorial domains) has fueled new applications (e.g., participatory budgeting).
New analysis frameworks have given the field new perspectives on well-known questions. Examples include distortion in metric spaces, best-of-both-world guarantees, and forms of beyond-worst-case analysis.
Social choice theory has also made progress in accounting for hard-to-model facets of decision-making, such as deliberation and learning systems.
The purpose of this workshop is to highlight recent breakthroughs in these directions, chart directions for future work, and bring together the social choice community at EC.
This half-day workshop will take place on Monday, July 8 at the EC conference. The workshop will feature contributed and invited talks, an open-problem session, and a poster session.
Call for Papers and Submission Instructions
We are soliciting paper contributions on the topics of this workshop. We encourage authors to submit papers using the EC style files, but other formats are also acceptable. Submissions will be lightly reviewed, and we prefer focussed and short versions of papers. We will accept papers both as poster and as oral presentations.
This is a non-archival workshop and we welcome papers that have been recently published or that are currently under review elsewhere. Papers accepted at EC 2024 should not be submitted. Submissions need not be anonymized.
Papers can be submitted via CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SocialChoiceEC2024/Submission/Index
Abstract deadline: Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 23:59 AoE
Full paper deadline: Thursday, 23 May 2024, 23:59 AoE
Notification: Friday, 31 May 2024
Workshop: Monday, 8 July 2024 from 08:00 AM
Organization
Contact: ec24workshop@comsocseminar.org
Workshop organizers:
Ashish Goel, Stanford
Paul Gölz, UC Berkeley & Cornell University
Dominik Peters, CNRS
Program committee:
Martin Bullinger
Bailey Flanigan
Lodewijk Gelauff
Matthias Greger
Daniel Halpern
Anson Kahng
Jérôme Lang
Eric Pacuit
Jannik Peters
Piotr Skowron
Warut Suksompong
Kangning Wang
Tomasz Wąs
Lirong Xia