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SUMMARY:Incentives and how to design them - Sofia Ceppi\, Senior Researche
 r\, Prowler
DTSTART:20190502T120000Z
DTEND:20190502T130000Z
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CONTACT:Ayat Fekry
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nIn this talk\, I will describe few current metho
 ds of approaching the problem of designing incentives for rational agents.
 \nI will start by considering the Mechanism Design framework in which the 
 designer defines the rules of the game (e.g.\, allocation and payments) so
  as to induce some desired outcome whilst ensuring a given set of properti
 es are satisfied (e.g.\, agents are not making a loss by being part of the
  system managed by the designer). Crucially\, the agents have private info
 rmation and are able to communicate with the designer.\nThen\, I will disc
 uss Incentive Design\, a problem in which agents do not report information
  to the designer who is tasked with learning how to set incentives that in
 duce desirable actions after making sequential observations of the agents 
 play. In particular\, I'll describe a project undertaken at Prowler.io the
  research component of which has been accepted at AAMAS 2019.\nFinally\, I
  will introduce Information Design where the the incentives take the form 
 of suggestions.\n\n\n*Speaker's Bio: *Sofia is a Senior Researcher in the 
 multi agent research team at Prowler.io and have a background in game theo
 ry and mechanism design. Since her PhD\, her work has been focused on desi
 gning incentives to motivate people and rational agents to behave as desir
 ed in different settings and when different types of incentive are possibl
 e.\nshe received a Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering (2008
 )\, and a Ph.D. in Information technology (2013) from Politecnico di Milan
 o (Italy). In 2012\, she has been a visiting student at University of Sout
 hampton (UK). From September 2013 to August 2015\, she was Postdoctoral Re
 searcher in the Networks\, Economics\, and Algorithms group at Microsoft R
 esearch Cambridge. Then\, just before joining Prowler.io\, she was Researc
 h Associate at the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications\,
  School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) working a
 t the Horizon 2020 project ‘Smart Society’ and at the EPSRC funded pro
 ject ‘UnBias’.\n\n
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room FW26
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