Theory and Application of Mechanism Design for Team Formation

Eugene Vorobeychik (Engineering) and Myrna Wooders (Economics) have been awarded a 3 year grant for $442,051 in support their research project, “Theory and Application of Mechanism Design for Team Formation.” This project addresses questions of design of mechanisms for efficient team formation from the perspectives of computer science, microeconomics, experimental economics, and game theory. The grant is sponsored by the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems of the NSF. [10/15]