07431 Executive Summary -- Computational Issues in Social Choice

Computational social choice is an interdisciplinary field of study at the interface of social choice theory and computer science, with knowledge flowing in either direction. On the one hand, computational social choice is concerned with importing concepts and procedures from social choice theory for solving questions that arise in computer science and AI application domains. This is typically the case for managing societies of autonomous agents, which calls for negotiation and voting procedures. On the other hand, computational social choice is concerned with importing notions and methods from computer science for solving questions originally stemming from social choice, for instance by providing new perspectives on the problem of manipulation and control in elections. This Dagstuhl Seminar has been devoted to the presentation of recent results and an exchange of ideas in this growing research field

07431 Abstracts Collection -- Computational Issues in Social Choice

From the 21st to the 26th of October 2007, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07431 on ``Computational Issues in Social Choice\u27\u27 was held at the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their recent research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. The abstracts of the talks given during the seminar are collected in this paper. The first section summarises the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to full papers are provided where available

Epistemological Approaches to Legal Translation Education: A Situated Account

La tesi doctoral que ací es presenta planteja, mitjançant una metodologia de caire quantitativo-qualitativa, una visió en conjunt de la didàctica de la traducció jurídica en Espanya, amb èmfasi en la pedagogia de l’aula i la metodologia emprada pel cos docent universitari. Partint de la conceptualització del coneixement mateix i l'adquisició de coneixement per part dels aprenents, el treball que presentem considera les bases epistemològiques que apuntalen l’educació superior en Espanya i les emmarca en un context institucional determinat (l’Espai Europeu d’Educació Superior, l’EEES), i un context normatiu concret (la Llei orgànica de 2007 per què es modifica la Llei Orgànica 6/2001, d’Universitats, LOMLOU), per tal de, en última instància, reflexionar sobre la praxi i la metodologia docent contemporània, la seua legitimació des de la filosofia de l’educació i l’epistemologia i com el canvi de paradigma que proposa l’EEES ha evidenciat la necessitat de re-enfocar l’ensenyament de la traducció jurídica.Through a mixed quantitative/qualitative standpoint, this doctoral dissertation provides a situated depiction of the current methodological and pedagogic practices regarding legal translation education in Spain. Framing education in epistemological terms, the dissertation reflects on the conceptualisation of knowledge and knowledge acquisition as tenets underpinning higher education methodology. This way, legal translation education is characterised according to a number of the institutional premises within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the relevant domestic regulatory framework (the Spanish 2007 Organic Law modifying the Spanish University Law 6/2001, LOMLOU). Ultimately, this work reflects on the contemporary teaching praxis and classroom methodology of lecturers, the legitimation of the mainstream pedagogic practices in philosophical and epistemological terms, and how a substantial change of paradigm within EHEA has witnessed the need to re-shape and re-focus legal translation education.Programa de Doctorat en Llengües Aplicades, Literatura i Traducci