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FC
2009
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Cryptographic Combinatorial Clock-Proxy Auctions
We present a cryptographic protocol for conducting efficient, provably correct and secrecy-preserving combinatorial clock-proxy auctions. The “clock phase” functions as a trust...
David C. Parkes, Michael O. Rabin, Christopher Tho...
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Keyword generation for search engine advertising using semantic similarity between terms
An important problem in search engine advertising is keyword1 generation. In the past, advertisers have preferred to bid for keywords that tend to have high search volumes and hen...
Vibhanshu Abhishek, Kartik Hosanagar
COCOON
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Scheduling Selfish Tasks: About the Performance of Truthful Algorithms
This paper deals with problems which fall into the domain of selfish scheduling: a protocol is in charge of building a schedule for a set of tasks without directly knowing their l...
George Christodoulou, Laurent Gourvès, Fann...
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Expressive markets for donating to charities
When donating money to a (say, charitable) cause, it is possible to use the contemplated donation as a bargaining chip to induce other parties interested in the charity to donate ...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Risk-averse auction agents
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Yaxin Liu, Richard Goodwin, Sven Koenig