Algorithms and Mechanisms for e-Democracy
2020 Course
Lecturers: Prof. Ehud Shapiro, Dr. Nimrod Talmon
Details: Tuesday, 0915-1100, Ziskind, Room 1
Syllabus
The seminar will cover a broad range of research questions, related to e-democracy.
These include:
- Social Choice theory, voting rules, and decision-making processes
- e-governance, including algorithms for participatory legislation and budgeting
- Sybil prevention, detection, eradication and resilience
- Advances in governance solutions for cryptocurrencies
The seminar will educate students to read and present research articles and will prepare them for doing original research in the area of e-democracy.
Reading list
Distributed Ledgers
Taxonomy of Blockchain Technologies: Principles of Identification and Classification
Deployment of a Blockchain-Based Self-Sovereign Identity
DAOs, Democracy and Governance
Notes on Blockchain Governance
Bitcoin’s Underlying Incentives
TrustChain: A Sybil-Resistant Scalable Blockchain
Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies
Fighting Sybils
Sybilproof Reputation Mechanisms
Sybil Detection Using Latent Network Structure
False-name-proof Mechanism Design without Money
Sybil-proof accounting mechanisms with transitive trust
Detecting Fake Accounts in Online Social Networks at the Time of Registrations
SybilBelief: A Semi-supervised Learning Approach for Structure-based Sybil Detection
AGT and Axiomatic approaches
The Axiomatic Approach and the Internet (book chapter)
An axiomatic approach to personalized ranking systems
Liquidity in Credit Networks: A Little Trust Goes a Long Way
Computational Social Choice and Deliberation
Efficiency and Usability of Participatory Budgeting Methods
Statistical Foundations of Virtual Democracy
Choosing how to choose: Self-stable majority rules and constitutions
Simple Collective Identity Functions
Iterative Local Voting for Collective Decision-making in Continuous Spaces
Sequential Deliberation for Social Choice
Dynamic Collective Choice with Endogenous Status Quo
On Rational Delegations in Liquid Democracy
A Contribution to the Critique of Liquid Democracy
Cryptography and eVoting
A Critical Review of Receipt-Freeness and Coercion-Resistance