Game Theory and Programming Social Collective Intelligence

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• Daniele Miorandi, Ph.D., Smart ICT for Socio-Technical Systems (iNSPIRE), CREATE-NET, Italy
• Wednesday 18 December 2013, 11:00-12:00
• Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Room 503.

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The term ‘social collective intelligence’ (SCI) denotes a class of socio-technical systems which are able to leverage, in a coordinated way, on the complementary strengths of computing systems, individuals and collectives. By harnessing human skills and social dynamics in a goal-oriented fashion, social collective intelligence systems are able to tackle effectively and efficiently complex problems. From a computational perspective, SCI systems are hybrid complex systems, where ‘computational units’ could be interchangeably computers or humans. When it comes to computers, we have a fairly good understanding on how to program them to achieve a desired behaviour. But the same turns out to be much more challenging when people are involved. The question then becomes: how to ‘program’ SCI systems in order to achieve a desired behaviour? In this talk we will outline some of the issues to be faced, and advocate for the use of game theoretical tools and approaches as the cornerstone for effectively designing and managing social collective intelligence systems.

Bio:

Daniele Miorandi is the head of the iNSPIRE Area at CREATE -NET, Italy and VP Executive R&D at U-Hopper srl. He received a PhD in Communications Engineering from Univ. of Padova, Italy, in 2005, and a Laurea degree (summa cum lauda) in Communications Engineering from Univ. of Padova, Italy, in 2001. He joined CREATE -NET in Jan. 2005, where he is leading the iNSPIRE (Networking and Security Solutions for Pervasive Computing Systems: Research & Experimentation). His current research interests include big data solutions for socio-technical systems, game theoretical models for large-scale networked systems, optimal stochastic control in social networks applications. Dr. Miorandi has co-authored more than 110 papers in internationally refereed journals and conferences. He serves on the Steering Committee of various international events (WiOpt, Autonomics, ValueTools), for some of which he was a co-founder (Autonomics and ValueTools). He also serves on the TPC of leading conferences in the networking field. He is a member of IEEE , ACM and ICST .

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