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SIGECOM
2000
ACM
175views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2000»
14 years 2 months ago
Competitive analysis of incentive compatible on-line auctions
This paper studies auctions in a setting where the di erent bidders arrive at di erent times and the auction mechanism is required to make decisions about each bid as it is receiv...
Ron Lavi, Noam Nisan
SODA
2012
ACM
249views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
12 years 7 days ago
Improved competitive ratio for the matroid secretary problem
The Matroid Secretary Problem, introduced by Babaioff et al. (2007), is a generalization of the Classical Secretary Problem. In this problem, elements from a matroid are presente...
Sourav Chakraborty, Oded Lachish
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
109views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
From optimal limited to unlimited supply auctions
We investigate the class of single-round, sealed-bid auctions for a set of identical items in unlimited supply. We adopt the worst-case competitive framework defined by [8, 4] th...
Jason D. Hartline, Robert McGrew
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Budget constrained bidding in keyword auctions and online knapsack problems
We consider the budget-constrained bidding optimization problem for sponsored search auctions, and model it as an online (multiple-choice) knapsack problem. We design both determi...
Yunhong Zhou, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Rajan M. Luko...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Improving the Performance of Online Auctions Through Server-side Activity-based Caching
Online auction sites have very specific workloads and user behavior characteristics. Previous studies on workload characterization conducted by the authors showed that i) bidding a...
Daniel A. Menascé, Vasudeva Akula