AIC Seminar Series

Voting Procedures, fair division algorithms, auctions and markets are all examples of social software, i.e., algorithms that process individual preferences or judgments in order to come up with some social outcome. I will illustrate how formal logic enters into the picture by two examples. First, I will discuss the relatively recent area of judgment aggregation, where individual judgments need to be aggregated into a group judgment. Judgments are here modeled by sets of logical formulas. Second, I will talk about an example of real-life social software, the Stanford Housing Draw that assigns undergraduates to residences on campus. Here, the plan is to use logic to specify the algorithm and to verify properties of the algorithm such as optimality and strategic non-manipulability.

Marc Pauly is an assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Amsterdam. Before coming to Stanford, he was a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Liverpool, UK, and a researcher at the CNRS in France.

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