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Seminar Details

Social Choice and Computer Science

  • Start Date: June 8, 2010
  • Event Start Time: 12:30 PM
  • Event End Time: 1:30 PM
  • Organizers: Gene Fiorini
  • Seminar Series: REU Seminar
  • Presenter(s): Fred Roberts - Rutgers University
  • Event Location: DIMACS Seminar room
  • Abstract: The social choice problem arises when societies or groups wish to make collaborative decisions and it involves finding a consensus given different opinions, preferences or votes by individuals in the society. Social science methods developed over the years for dealing with this problem have led to a variety of fascinating mathematical problems. In recent years, they have begun to find novel, important applications in computer science. Moreover, computer science points of view are impacting social science applications. We will describe connections between social choice and computer science, concentrating on such topics as meta-search (combining results from multiple search engines), image processing, collaborative filtering ("recommender systems"), software measurement, electronic voting, and processing information in large databases.