Leader: Biró Péter
Description of research area
The Mechanism design research group was founded in 2016 with the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Momentum grant. Our research focuses on the algorithmic and game-theoretic aspects of preference-based matching problems. This topic belongs to the interdisciplinary fields of Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Engineering Economics, which are border areas of mathematics, computer science, and economics. In addition to theoretical research, we participated in the development of real applications, including kindergarten, school and university admissions, the allocation of interns and kidney exchange programs. We are currently working on the planning and implementation of Hungarian and European kidney exchange programs, and we are analyzing Hungarian high school and university enrollment data. We participated in several international projects, such as the Matching in Practice Network (2010-), COST Actions on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC, 2012-2016) and the European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programs (ENCKEP, 2016-2021), and the Software for Transnational Kidney Exchange Programs COST Innovators Grant (KEP-SOFT, 2021-2022).
Group members: Balázs Ákos Miklós, Benedek Márton, Csáji Gergely Kál, Cseh Ágnes, Csercsik Dávid, Fleiner Tamás, Jankó Zsuzsanna, Rusznák Attila, Schlotter Ildikó
Research assistants: Erős Dániel
News, events
Event date | Event name | Related institution | Link |
July 8-12, 2024 | 2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design | Society for the Promotion of Mechanism and Institution Design | https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/ind/cmid/?lang=en |
May 17-19, 2023 | 14th International Conference ‘Challenges of Europe’, Design for the next Generation | University of Split | https://conference.efst.hr/, |
June 6-8, 2023 | The 19th International Conference on European Energy Markets (EEM) | LUT University | https://www.lut.fi/en/eem23 |
August 21-December 20, 2023 | Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design | Simons Laufers Mathematical Sciences Institute | https://www.slmath.org/programs/333 |
July 19-23, 2021 | The Twenty-Second ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’21) | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | https://ec21.sigecom.org/ |
July 13-17, 2020 | The Twenty-First ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’20) | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | https://ec20.sigecom.org/ |
June 12-14, 2019 | 2019 Conference on Economic Design | Society for Economic Design | https://mechanismdesign.eu/uncoming-events/conference-on-economic-design-of-sed/163/ |
Projects
Funder | Project title | Start date | Closing date | Research manager | Project code |
NKFIH | Algorithmic game theory in matching and exchange markets | 2022.09.01 | 2026.08.31 | Biró Péter | K143858 |
MTA/ELKH | Engineering economics in matching markets – Momentum II. | 2021.09.01 | 2026.08.31 | Biró Péter | LP2021-2/2021 |
NKFIH | Volunteer Mentoring in Digital Education | 2020.07.01 | 2021.06.30 | Biró Péter | 2020-2-.1.1-ED-2020-00051 |
NKFIH | Home summer internship for Hungarian university students from the UK, Germany, and Austria | 2020.06.15 | 2020.09.01 | Biró Péter | 2020-1.2.1-GYAK-2020-00021 |
NKFIH | Multisector Markets: Matching Problems and Assignment Games | 2018.09.01 | 2022.08.31 | Atay Ata | PD128348 |
NKFIH | Efficient algorithms for allocation tasks | 2018.09.01 | 2023.08.31 | Cseh Ágnes | K128611 |
NKFIH | Economic, game-theoretic and algorithmic analysis of kidney exchange programs | 2018.09.01 | 2021.08.31 | Biró Péter | K129086 |
MTA | Complex planning of matching markets | 2016.07.01 | 2020.12.31 | Biró Péter | LP2016-3/2018 |
MTA | Heuristic problem solving in matching mechanisms | 2017.07.01 | 2020.06.30 | Biró Péter | KEP-6/2018 |
MTA | Summer school on the computational aspects of economic design | 2018.01.01 | 2019.06.30 | Biró Péter | NKSZ-34/2018 |
Featured publications
Péter Biró, Jens Gudmundsson: Complexity of finding Pareto-efficient allocations of highest welfare
Tamás Fleiner, Ravi Jagadeesan, Zsuzsanna Jankó, Alex Teytelboym: Trading networks with frictions
Ágnes Cseh, Tamás Fleiner: The complexity of cake cutting with unequal shares
Dávid Csercsik: Convex combinatorial auction of pipeline network capacities
Partners
Partner name | Partner type | Nature of relationship | Period | Link |
University of Glasgow, INESC TEC Porto | research groups in the indicated institutions | Cooperation within the framework of the European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programs (ENCKEP) COST Action | 2016-2021 | https://www.enckep-cost.eu/ |
University of Glasgow, INESC TEC Porto | research groups in the indicated institutions | Cooperation within the Software for Transnational Kidney Exchange Programs (KEP-SOFT) COST Innovators Grant | 2021-2022 | https://www.kepsoft-cost.eu/ |