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Rice University Department of Computer Science presents Moshe Tennenholtz Technion--Israel Institute of Technology and Stanford University Electronic Market Design Abstract The design of protocols for non-cooperative computational environments (e.g. Internet Auctions) is a major challenge for electronic commerce. In order to address this challenge we should tackle several complementary tasks: 1. Re-consider economic mechanisms in view of their use in computational settings. 2. Incorporate distributed systems features into the context of game-theoretic and economic models. 3. Deal with computational aspects of mechanism design. In this talk we present a overview of some of our work on these tasks. In particular, we will consider the effects of having many participants, risk elements, and competition among sellers in the Internet setup, on the study of auctions. In addition, we consider the effects of the communication network and the asynchronous nature of distributed systems on the implementation and analysis of various economic mechanisms. Some results about the computational treatment of economic mechanisms will be mentioned as well. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2003 at 4 p.m. in DH 1064 A reception will be held at 3:30 in DH 3092 Biographical Sketch Moshe Tennenholtz received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University (1986), and his M.Sc. and Ph.D (1987,1991) from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in Weizmann Institute. From 1991 to 1993 he served as a research associate at Stanford University; and joined the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1993, where he is now a tenured associate professor. Recently, Tennenholtz was a visiting professor with the Computer Science department at Stanford from 1999 to 2002. His work focuses on the foundations of multi-agent systems, electronic market design, and the interaction between game theory and computer science. In particular, in joint work with colleagues and students he introduced and developed the theories of artificial social systems, co-learning, distributed games, axiomatic qualitative decision-making, and rational computability. Tennenholtz serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and the AI Magazine. He is also a co-editor of Games and Economic Behavior special issue on Game Theory and AI, and the moderator of the Computer Science and Game Theory area of the Computing Research Repository. Copyright 2000 Rice University site problems: www@cs.rice.edu --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---