Mechanism Design Theory - Reverse Game Theory
- that takes an objectives-first approach to designing economic mechanisms or incentives, toward desired objectives (thus called reverse game theory)
- is a subfield of economics and game theory
- is also a subfield of artificial intelligence that deals with the design of intelligent systems. It’s concerned with the creation of algorithms and architectures that enable intelligent systems to perform tasks such as planning, scheduling, and resource allocation
- it has broad applications in such fields as market design, auction theory, and social choice theory to networked systems (internet interdomain routing, sponsored search auctions)