Sciweavers

105 search results - page 4 / 21
» A Lower Bound on the Competitive Ratio of Truthful Auctions
Sort
View
SODA
2010
ACM
201views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budg...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Vincent Conitzer, Kamesh Munag...
WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
The Geometry of Truthfulness
We study the geometrical shape of the partitions of the input space created by the allocation rule of a truthful mechanism for multi-unit auctions with multidimensional types and ...
Angelina Vidali
STOC
1991
ACM
127views Algorithms» more  STOC 1991»
13 years 11 months ago
Lower Bounds for Randomized k-Server and Motion Planning Algorithms
In this paper, we prove lower bounds on the competitive ratio of randomized algorithms for two on-line problems: the k-server problem, suggested by [MMS], and an on-line motion-pl...
Howard J. Karloff, Yuval Rabani, Yiftach Ravid
LATIN
2010
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
The Power of Fair Pricing Mechanisms
We explore the revenue capabilities of truthful, monotone (“fair”) allocation and pricing functions for resource-constrained auction mechanisms within a general framework that ...
Christine Chung, Katrina Ligett, Kirk Pruhs, Aaron...
SODA
2003
ACM
157views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Competitive queueing policies for QoS switches
We consider packet scheduling in a network providing differentiated services, where each packet is assigned a value. We study various queueing models for supporting QoS (Quality ...
Nir Andelman, Yishay Mansour, An Zhu