Alan Tsang

Assistant Professor

Research Publications

2024

Catfished! Impacts of Strategic Misrepresentation in Online Dating
Oz Kilic, Alan Tsang
To Appear at Twenty-Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2024)
Learning to vote differently in social deduction games
George Savin, Alan Tsang
Social Choice and Learning Algorithms workshop (SCaLA at AAMAS 2024)
Penny-pinched: Modeling Aging and Unemployment
Fuguang Chen, Alan Tsang
Social Choice and Learning Algorithms workshop (GAIW at AAMAS 2024)
Moving Fast and Slow: An Agent-based Model for Simulating Fire Evacuations
Alex Chan, Joshua Kline, Sreepriya Pulyassary, Alan Tsang
Social Choice and Learning Algorithms workshop (GAIW at AAMAS 2024)

2023

A Multi-Hop-Aware User To Edge-Server Association Game
Youcef Kardjadja, Alan Tsang, Mohamed Ibnkahla, Yacine Gamri-Doudane
9th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization

2021

Learning Cooperative Solution Concepts from Voting Behavior: A Case Study on the Israeli Knesset
Omer Lev, Wei Lu, Alan Tsang, Yair Zick
Extended Abstract at Twentieth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021)
Read my blog entry about it, or watch the video (prepared for the GAIW workshop at AAMAS 2020)

2020

Keeping Your Friends Close: Land Allocation with Friends
Edith Elkind, Neel Patel, Alan Tsang, Yair Zick
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020)
Read my blog entry about it for the Games, Agents and Incentives Workshop
Also to appear as a poster at the International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (2021)

Locating influential agents in social networks: Budget-constrained seed set selection
Rishav Agarwal, Robin Cohen, Lukasz Golab, Alan Tsang
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC 2020)

2019

Group-Fairness in Influence Maximization
Alan Tsang, Bryan Wilder, Eric Rice, Milind Tambe, Yair Zick (equal contribution)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019)

Inferring True Voting Outcomes in Homophilic Social Networks
John A. Doucette, Alan Tsang, Hadi Hosseini, Kate Larson, Robin Cohen
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Journal), (Vol 33, Issue 3, pp 298-329)

These Polar Twins: Opinion Dynamics of Intervals
Amr Alhossary, Alan Tsang, Zinovi Rabinovich, Svetlana Obraztsova, Judy Goldsmith, Alex Wyllie
Games, Agents and Incentives Workshop (GAIW at AAMAS 2019)

2018

Boundedly Rational Voters in Large(r) Networks
Alan Tsang, Amirali Salehi-Abari, Kate Larson
Seventeenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)

2017

If You Like It, then You Shoulda Put a Sticker on It -- A Model for Strategic Timing in Voting
Alan Tsang, Kate Larson
The 4th Workshop on Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice (EXPLORE) at AAMAS 2017

2016

The Echo Chamber: Strategic Voting and Homophily in Social Networks
Alan Tsang and Kate Larson
Fifteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016)
I gave an interview with The Ringer in this article.

Analyzing Opinion Dynamics in Online Social Networks
Robin Cohen, Alan Tsang, Krishna Vaidyanathan, Haotian Zhang
Big Data and Information Analytics (BDIA), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2016

2015

Voting with Social Influence: Using Arguments to Uncover Ground Truth [extended abstract]
Alan Tsang, John Doucette and Hadi Hosseini
Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015)

Voting with Social Networks: Truth Springs from Argument Amongst Friends
John Doucette, Hadi Hosseini, Alan Tsang, Robin Cohen, Kate Larson
The 2nd Workshop on Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice (EXPLORE) at AAMAS 2015

2014

Opinion Dynamics of Skeptical Agents
Alan Tsang and Kate Larson
Thirteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014)

2013

Resource Sharing for Control of Wildland Fires
Alan Tsang, Kate Larson and Rob McAlpine
Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013)

Sharing of Fire Fighting Resources [Non-Peer-Reviewed Technical Report]
Kate Larson, Alan Tsang, Rob McAlpine
Wildland Fire Canada Conference