I am pleased to invite you to the last two seminars of the Faculty of
Computer Science of Bolzano-Bozen series 2007/2008.
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17.06.08, 15:00-16:00 - Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, P.za Sernesi,
1, room A101
A Distributed Platform for Mechanism Design
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Krzysztof R. Apt, CWI and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Abstract
Mechanism design is an important area of economics. It aims at realizing
economic interactions in which desired social decisions result when each
agent is interested in maximizing his utility. The economic analysis
always assumes existence of a central authority that takes decisions and
implements them.
We describe a structured system for distributed mechanism design. In our
approach the players dynamically form a network in which they know
neither their neighbours nor the size of the network and interact to
jointly take decisions.
The system is implemented in Java. We illustrate its flexibility by
discussing a number of implemented examples.
(Based on a joint work with Farhad Arbab and Huiye Ma.)
CV:
Krzysztof R. Apt got a PhD in mathematical logic from the Polish Academy
of Sciences in Warsaw, in 1974. He is a senior researcher at CWI,
Amsterdam and Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In the past he also worked at the Universities and Research Centra in
Poland, France, U.S., Belgium and Singapore. Apt published four books
and more than fifty journal articles, in computer science, mathematical
logic and, more recently, economics. His current research is concerned
with game theory and multi-agent systems. He is a member of Academia
Europea and member of the council of the European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). Apt is also a member of the
Advisory Board of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). He strongly
believes that free access to scientific publishing is both feasible and
strongly desirable for the further advancement of science.
Reference person: Rosella Gennari <mailto:%20Rosella.Gennari(a)unibz.it>
23.06.08, 14:00-15:00 - Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, P.za Sernesi,
1, room A101
Elimination of spurious explanations
Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
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Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
Abstract
The generation of explanations is considered as a main asset of
knowledge-based systems employing an explicit knowledge representation.
Such systems can exploit explanations in communication processes in
order to justify the outcome of a reasoning procedure. E.g. in
recommendation processes explanations are generated to build trust in
proposed solutions.
In this talk we show that current approaches of generating explanations
for constraint satisfaction problems fall short. These approaches can
lead to spurious explanations with respect to a proposed (or selected)
solution. We introduce an extension of current explanation principles
such that all explanations of properties regarding a proposed solution
are well-founded explanations.
CV:
Since 1997 Gerhard Friedrich is full professor at the Alpen-Adria
Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria where he directs the research group on
Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics and heads the Institute for
Applied Informatics.
Prof. Friedrich received his Ph.D. at the Technical University Vienna
and worked as a guest researcher at the Stanford Research Institute and
at the Corporate Research Division of Siemens AG. Before his engagement
at the University Klagenfurt, Prof. Friedrich was head of the technology
centre for configurators and diagnosis systems of Siemens Austria where
under his responsibility numerous knowledge-based systems were
successfully implemented.
Prof. Friedrich has published more than 100 articles in highly renowned
journals and conferences. He serves as an Editor of AI Communications
and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mass
Customisation. Prof. Friedrich and his team conduct research in the
areas of knowledge based systems for configuring products and services,
knowledge based advisory systems, distributed knowledge based systems,
knowledge acquisition, integration of knowledge based systems, diagnosis
and repair of processes as well as self healing web services.
Reference person: Francesco Ricci <mailto:%20Francesco.Ricci(a)unibz.it>
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