The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Massachusetts a $599,785 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The award, effective September 15, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will support research on sequential fair allocation mechanisms for distributing resources in markets without money. The research team will examine how simple, sequential allocation algorithms can offer fairness and efficiency guarantees for practical...
This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support research and education efforts at the University of Illinois on the topics of fairness in algorithmic decision-making and machine learning. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art on achieving fairness in computational resource allocation tasks, like vaccine distribution, as well as developing fairness concepts for machine...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $292,001 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on fairness in web database applications from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024. The grant supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the University of Illinois will advance...
This $323,951 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) grant award to Rutgers, The State University will fund a collaborative research project on developing solutions for the transparent and fair allocation of indivisible resources. The research aims to address challenges around fairness and transparency in real-world applications such as healthcare resource distribution, dispute resolution, and refugee settlement. Key focus areas include: 1)...
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...
This $174,867 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award to Wellesley College will fund a research project on "ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS FOR COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL CHOICE MODELS." The project aims to: 1) Formulate new computational problems, objectives, and constraints for implementing and evaluating voting systems that can guide future work in algorithmic fairness; 2) Design and analyze algorithms for...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $499,766 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will support research from July 2021 through June 2024 related to algorithmic and market design challenges in cloud computing. As part of this funding, the University of Illinois will conduct investigator-initiated research to advance the development and use of cyberinfrastructure, enabling and accelerating discovery...
This is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant awarded to Trustees of Boston University in the amount of $259,116 with a project period from January 15, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The grant focuses on designing mechanisms that allocate resources in a way that maximizes consumer utility when monetary payments are infeasible, such as in social services. The project will explore tradeoffs between efficient allocation and the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The 3-year grant, awarded on February 1, 2024, supports research to address open questions in algorithmic game theory and its applications to online markets and platforms. Key research objectives include developing new...
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...