The Proposal of Mechanism Synthesis

Abstract

Mechanism design is an applied theory in economics that began to be studied around 1970, and is a research field that targets social institutions and rules (mechanisms) using game theory. Emergent synthesis, on the other hand, is a concept that emerged from the field of industrial engineering and was proposed by Ueda (2001) as an alternative to conventional top-down optimisation methods. In this article, Mechanism Synthesis is proposed as a new research area that fuses both fields, aiming at designing mechanisms based on a emergent synthesis way.