COMP559 - Computational Auctions and Mechanism Design

Pre-requisites: Entrants with Computer Science background: ECON915, COMP557 and COMP323 . Students who previously took COMP323 should have taken COMP516 or COMP523 . Entrants with Economics background: COMP517 , COMP557 and COMP323 . Students of CSAD (Advanced Computer Science MSc): COMP557 and COMP323 . Students who previously took COMP323 should have taken COMP516 or COMP523 .


Recommended texts

Primary texts:
N. Nisan, T. Roughgarden, E. Tardos, V.V. Vazirani (Editors). Algorithmic Game Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
P. Cramton, Y. Shoham, and R. Steinberg (Editors). Combinatorial Auctions. The MIT Press, 2005.

Further reading:
M.J. Osborne, A. Rubinstein. A Course in Game Theory. MIT Press, 1994.
Some lectures will be based on research papers.

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