This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award in the amount of $244,636 to the University of Illinois will investigate fundamental questions related to fair allocation and exchange in emerging online economies. The 5-year project aims to develop novel methods and theories for addressing fairness challenges in the allocation and exchange of chores, indivisible goods, and data. Key research focus areas...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), is providing $600,000.00 over 3 years to the University of Colorado to study algorithmic and economic principles for designing effective online marketplaces and platforms. The research focuses on the "Pandora's Box" problem, where participants must expend effort to search for and evaluate alternatives, balancing the value of their choices...
The $499,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the University of Chicago's "A SECURE HUB FOR ACCESS, RELIABILITY, AND EXCHANGE OF DATA (SHARED)" project. The SHARED platform serves as a centralized data management resource to facilitate data-driven research and collaboration across diverse disciplines, including cosmology, particle physics, linguistics, and psychology. The...
This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research on heterogeneous agent modeling of the personal data economy. With a performance period from August 2021 through July 2023, this award will support the development of models to analyze how individual behaviors and interactions shape markets involving the exchange of personal data. As part of its mission to advance the social and economic sciences, the NSF SBE...
This two-year, $299,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research quantifying the fair value of data and privacy in distributed learning environments. The grantee, the Regents of the University of California at Berkeley, will develop a framework for systematically quantifying the value of data at various privacy levels using techniques from economics, game theory, optimization, machine learning and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Chicago. The grant will fund the development of an open-source ecosystem around the Gen3 data platform, which enables researchers to manage, analyze, and share large scientific datasets. The project aims to expand the reach of Gen3 to smaller research organizations, making it easier to set up, maintain, and contribute to the...
This $597,201 federal Project Grant awarded on June 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports the development of a novel programming language ecosystem for higher-order software contracts. The project aims to investigate the design, theory, implementation, and practice of a contract-centric ecosystem that can help developers better visualize, debug, and understand the interactions between software...
This $336,352 National Science Foundation project grant supports research towards trustworthy and accountable internet of things (IoT) data marketplaces from July 2022 through June 2024. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the research investigates foundations and implementation of a decentralized marketplace to enable secure IoT data sharing and trading with flexible and enforced access controls as well as post-trading accountability. Key...
The University of Chicago received a $166,302 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports collaborative research to enable extremely fine-grained parallelism on modern many-core architectures. The research is expected to advance the development and use of cyberinfrastructure to accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and...
This $2,228,505 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a cloud-based, open, and collaborative cyberinfrastructure to enable data-driven exploration and modeling of urban data. The project aims to address two critical obstacles in urban computing: the lack of robust, well-engineered tools and open computing platforms, and the dispersed community of...
This $198,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Chicago. The grant supports the development of methodologies and programming frameworks for designing and implementing data-sharing market systems. The technical activities include designing and implementing a data-sharing programming framework, analyzing constraints and invariants of data flow control to aid in data market design and implementation, and evaluating the technical contributions. The dissemination activities will include organizing technical workshops, developing educational content, and publishing articles for technical and general audiences to elucidate the value of data and data sharing techniques. The project aims to enable the judicious design and implementation of data markets to facilitate the sharing and reuse of valuable data assets across public and private organizations.