Higher-Order Approximate Relational Refinement Types for Mechanism Design and Differential Privacy
Gilles Barthe, Marco Gaboardi, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, Justin Hsu, Aaron Roth, Pierre-Yves Strub · 2014
Mechanism design is the study of algorithm design where the inputs to the algorithm are controlled by strategic agents, who must be incentivized to faithfully report them. Unlike typical programmatic properties, it is not sufficient for algorithms to merely satisfy the property, incentive properties are only useful if the strategic agents also believe this fact.