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IAT
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Beyond Quasi-linear Utility: Strategy/False-Name-Proof Multi-unit Auction Protocols
We develop strategy/false-name-proof multi-unit auction protocols for non-quasi-linear utilities. One almost universal assumption in auction theory literature is that each bidder ...
Yuko Sakurai, Yasumasa Saito, Atsushi Iwasaki, Mak...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Miscomputing ratio: social cost of selfish computing
Auctions are useful mechanism for allocating items (goods, tasks, resources, etc.) in multiagent systems. The bulk of auction theory assumes that the bidders’ valuations for ite...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm
CORR
2008
Springer
111views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Fairness in Combinatorial Auctioning Systems
One of the Multi-Agent Systems that is widely used by various government agencies, buyers and sellers in a market economy, in such a manner so as to attain optimized resource allo...
Megha Saini, Shrisha Rao
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
117views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
First-price path auctions
We study first-price auction mechanisms for auctioning flow between given nodes in a graph. A first-price auction is any auction in which links on winning paths are paid their ...
Nicole Immorlica, David R. Karger, Evdokia Nikolov...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
220views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Better redistribution with inefficient allocation in multi-unit auctions with unit demand
For the problem of allocating one or more items among a group of competing agents, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is strategy-proof and efficient. However, the VCG mech...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer