To mark the growing interaction between economics and computer science CWI organizes a day devoted to game theory in computer science and economics with four lectures by distinguished lecturers from abroad and CWI: Christos H. Papadimitriou, Dov Samet, Krzysztof R. Apt and Han La Poutré.

Mathematical game theory became a standard tool in economics, where it is used to study various economic processes, including competition, cooperation, strategic behaviour and bargaining. Game theory is also fast becoming an important subject in computer science. There it is used to capture interaction in electronic commerce, in particular electronic auctions, strategic behaviour in distributed systems, rational decision making in competitive environments (like congestion) and the like, with new focus on computational complexity, implementation and simulation.

Speakers

Christos H. Papadimitriou Christos Papadimitriou is C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published some 300 articles and several books on algorithms, computation theory, and database systems, and also the novel Turing. He is one of the founders of algorithmic game theory.

Dov Samet Dov Samet holds the Louise Lea Flack Chair in Game Theory and Interactive Decisions at the Faculty of Management at Tel Aviv University. He is the past Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Game Theory. Also, he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has been a member of the council of the Game Theory Society. He has published extensively on non-cooperative and cooperative game theory and in particular on the epistemic foundations of game theory.

Krzysztof R. Apt Krzysztof R. Apt is CWI Fellow and Professor at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Academia Europæa and founder and past Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions in Computational Logic. He has published four books and numerous journal articles, in computer science, mathematical logic and, more recently, game theory.

Han La Poutré Han La Poutré is head of the research group 'Computational Intelligence and Multi-agent Games' at CWI and Professor at the Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. He has published widely in complexity theory, neural networks and various aspects of multi-agent systems.