The Collective Decision Making Systems (CDMS) project conducts research in:


  1. •    prediction markets

  2. •    voting systems

  3. •    information propagation

  4. •    recommender systems

Marko A. Rodriguez (marko dat lanl bot gov) • Jennifer H. Watkins (jhw dat lanl bot gov)

© 2006-2009 CDMS

What do riots, stampedes, Kool-Aid cults and black market Tuesday have in common?  They are all collective decisions.  These failed flashes of human potential can now be made successful through a variety of ignorant aggregation systems.  Collective decision making systems utilize non-confrontational computer interfaces to facilitate the appropriate combination of the diverse bits of information and insight contained within us all. Here’s to white market Fridays!