boosting and support vector machines,
public-key cryptography including the
RSA protocol, widely used data struc-
tures such as splay trees and tech-
niques like locality-sensitive hashing,
and more. Well-known examples in
economics include the analysis and de-
sign of matching markets that have en-
abled kidney exchanges and have led to
significant successes in public school
admissions and residence matching
for doctors and hospitals, the influ-
ence of auction theory on the design
of the FCC spectrum auctions, and the
design and redesign of the auctions
used in online advertising markets.

As in other fields, there is great potential for mathematical work to influence and shape the future of social computing. There is a small literature using mathematical models to analyze and propose design recommendations for social computing systems including crowdsourcing markets, 7, 18, 24, 25, 30, 37

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