Join us for the Third Workshop on New Directions in Social Choice, co-located with the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'26) at the Sapienza University of Rome on Monday, July 6, 2026!
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on topics related to voting and social choice. With a focus on recent developments, new application domains, new analysis frameworks, and the intersection with artificial intelligence, the workshop will provide a platform for discussing the latest breakthroughs and charting directions for future work in the field.
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Social choice theory has been studying collective decision-making since the 1950s. Recent progress has deepened our understanding along several axes of innovation, and this workshop seeks to explore these exciting frontiers:
New Application Domains: Social choice theory is being applied to an expanding range of new areas. Theoretical progress (e.g., voting in combinatorial domains) has fueled new applications (e.g., blockchain consensus and participatory budgeting).
New Analysis Frameworks: The field has benefited from new perspectives on well-known questions through innovative analysis frameworks. Examples include distortion in metric spaces, best-of-both-world guarantees, and forms of beyond-worst-case analysis.
Accounting for Hard-to-Model Facets: Social choice theory is making strides in incoroporating complex, real-world aspects of decision-making such as such as deliberation, preference learning, strategic behavior under uncertainty, and the impact of information structures.
Social Choice for Artificial Intelligence: There is a growing need to apply social choice principles to the development and governance of AI systems. This includes aggregating diverse human preferences for AI alignment, social choice approaches to fairness in algorithmic decision-making, and designing mechanisms for collective AI control.
The purpose of this workshop is to highlight recent breakthroughs in these directions, chart avenues for future work, and bring together the social choice community at EC.
This half-day workshop will take place on Monday, July 6, at the EC'26 conference (which runs July 6-10). We will update this website as soon as we learn if the workshop takes place in the morning or afternoon. The workshop will feature contributed and invited talks and a joint poster session with other EC'26 workshops.
We solicit paper contributions on the topics of this workshop. We encourage submissions that explore any of the themes listed above, as well as other novel directions in computational social choice. We encourage authors to submit papers using the EC style files (zip), but other formats are also acceptable. Submissions will be lightly reviewed, and we prefer focused and short versions of papers. We will accept papers both as poster and as oral presentations.
This is a non-archival workshop and we welcome papers that have been recently published or that are currently under review elsewhere. Papers accepted at EC'26 should not be submitted. Submissions need not be anonymized.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: TBD, 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification to Authors: TBD
Workshop Date: Monday, July 6, 2026 (morning or afternoon)
Contact: ec26workshop@comsocseminar.org
Workshop organizers:
Paul Gölz, Cornell University
Dominik Peters, CNRS