DYNAMICS IN SOCIETAL SYSTEMS:

Increasing stress on our natural resources, coupled with rapid automation and digitalization of our societies, is leading to daunting societal challenges. The control community has an important role to play due to our unique ability to understand and manipulate dynamics, which exist in many societal systems either explicitly or implicitly, and are often overlooked by other communities. This workshop brings together experts from various socio-technical control domains unified by one overarching question: are dynamics and feedback a hero or a villain of societal systems?

Over the course of this workshop, we will look for an answer to this question inside these domains:

• Game theory and mechanism design;

• Social networks and recommender systems;

• Learning in games;

• Fair and socially responsible automation.

By viewing these seemingly disparate fields under one common lens, the workshop aims at isolating and highlighting the unique role systems theory and control has to play in addressing future societal challenges.

Speakers