Course Identification

Algorithms and Mechanisms for e-Democracy
20214061

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. Ehud Shapiro, Dr. Nimrod Talmon
Dr. Ouri Poupko

Course Schedule and Location

2021
First Semester
Tuesday, 09:15 - 11:00
27/10/2020

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Mathematics and Computer Science: Seminar; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points

Comments

All courses in the first semester will be held on-line via zoom.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

30

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

30%
70%

Evaluation Type

Seminar

Scheduled date 1

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-
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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2

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
  • Distributed computing and distributed ledgers
  • 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.

Please see details in the course's website, at https://sites.google.com/view/edemocracycourse

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Read and present research articles and will be prepared for doing original research in the area of Internet-enabled democracy.

Reading List

Website

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