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CORR
2010
Springer
142views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Budget Feasible Mechanisms
We study a novel class of mechanism design problems in which the outcomes are constrained by the payments. This basic class of mechanism design problems captures many common econom...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Yaron Singer
SODA
2010
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
WINE
2010
Springer
189views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Non-single-minded Profit-Maximization Problems with Limited Supply
We consider profit-maximization problems for combinatorial auctions with non-single minded valuation functions and limited supply. We obtain fairly general results that relate the ...
Khaled M. Elbassioni, Mahmoud Fouz, Chaitanya Swam...
APPROX
2007
Springer
112views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs
Abstract Consider a situation where a group of agents wishes to share the costs of their joint actions, and needs to determine how to distribute the costs amongst themselves in a f...
Andreas S. Schulz, Nelson A. Uhan
SODA
2010
ACM
164views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Differentially Private Approximation Algorithms
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...