Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks
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| COMPUTER SCIENCE/DISCRETE MATH I | |
| Topic: | Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks |
| Speaker: | Michael Kearns |
| Affiliation: | University of Pennsylvania |
| Date: | Monday, March 8 |
| Time/Room: | 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101 |
For four years now, we have been conducting "medium-scale" experiments in how human subjects behave in strategic and economic settings mediated by an underlying network structure. We have explored a wide range of networks inspired by generative models from the literature, and a diverse set of collective strategic problems, including biased voting, graph coloring, consensus, and networked trading. These experiments have yielded a wealth of both specific findings and emerging general themes about how populations of human subjects interact in strategic networks. I will review these findings and themes, with an emphasis on the many more questions they raise
than answer.