DIMACS Special Focus on Computation and the Socio-Economic Sciences

数学家和社会科学家之间的合作关系已经存在了很长时间，但计算机科学家和社会科学家之间的合作关系相对较新。在过去的5年里，它们已经开始萌芽，几个重要的新研究领域已经蓬勃发展。将计算方法应用于解决现代社会科学问题需要开发新的数据结构、算法和其他属于计算机科学家领域的工具。该项目旨在发展新的“以社会科学为基础”的计算机科学方法，并研究它们在信息技术问题和对现代社会具有根本重要性的社会科学问题中的应用。它还寻求研究与社会经济科学新出现的问题特别相关的计算机科学工具。对这类问题的研究需要计算机科学家、数学家、运筹学研究人员、经济学家、商业应用专家、政治科学家、心理学家、社会学家和专门研究信息处理的研究人员之间建立新的跨学科合作关系。本项目旨在促进这种伙伴关系。该项目的研究部分将围绕跨学科研究人员工作组组织，包括学生和初级研究人员。课程将向研究人员和学生介绍计算机科学和社会科学的相关方法以及相关的应用问题。研讨会将确定研究领域，寻求促进跨学科合作，并关注未来的研究挑战，他们将有一个教育的组成部分，辅导演讲和学生参与的机会。所有工作组和讲习班都将寻求跨学科的参与者组合。工作组将调查博弈论、计算和行为；网络搜索与元搜索的数学分布式计算、社会网络和疾病传播过程。将举办“市场作为预测工具（信息市场）”讲习班；拍卖设计中的计算问题电子投票（理论与实践）；和随机效用多面体组合。其他研讨会将涵盖网络经济学主题；有限理性;收益管理和动态定价。

Partnerships between mathematicians and social scientists have existed for a long time, but partnerships between computer scientists and social scientists are relatively new. In the past 5 years, they have begun to sprout and several important new fields of research are already thriving as a result. Applying computational methods to the solution of modern social science problems requires the development of new data structures, algorithms, and other tools that are in the domain of the computer scientist. This project seeks to develop the new ``social-science-based'' CS methodologies and to investigate their application to problems of information technology and to problems of the social sciences of fundamental importance to modern society. It also seeks to investigate computer science tools that are especially relevant to emerging problems of the socio-economic sciences. Research into issues of this type requires new interdisciplinary partnerships among computer scientists, mathematicians, operations researchers, economists, experts in business applications, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and researchers specializing in the handling of information. This project seeks to catalyze such partnerships.The research component of the project will be organized around interdisciplinary working groups of researchers, with students and junior researchers included. Tutorials will introduce researchers and students to relevant methods of computer science and the social sciences and relevant applied problems. Workshops will identify areas for research, seek to catalyze interdisciplinary collaborations, and focus on future research challenges, and they will have an educational component with tutorial presentations and opportunities for students to participate. All working groups and workshops will seek an interdiscipinary mix of participants. Working Groups will investigate Game Theory, Computation, and Behavior; the Mathematics of Web Search and Meta-Search; and Distributed Computing, Social Networks, and Disease Spread Processes. Workshops will be held on Markets as Predictive Devices (Information Markets); Computational Issues in Auction Design; Electronic Voting (Theory and Practice); and Polyhedral Combinatorics of Random Utility. Additional workshops will cover the topics Network Economics; Bounded Rationality; and Yield Management and Dynamic Pricing.