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FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
On the Approximability of Budgeted Allocations and Improved Lower Bounds for Submodular Welfare Maximization and GAP
In this paper we consider the following maximum budgeted allocation (MBA) problem: Given a set of m indivisible items and n agents; each agent i willing to pay bij on item j and w...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Gagan Goel
DALT
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Abstracting and Verifying Strategy-Proofness for Auction Mechanisms
ing and Verifying Strategy-proofness for Auction Mechanisms E. M. Tadjouddine, F. Guerin, and W. Vasconcelos Department of Computing Science, King's College, University of Abe...
Emmanuel M. Tadjouddine, Frank Guerin, Wamberto We...
JCSS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Reducing mechanism design to algorithm design via machine learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a broad class of re...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...
AAIM
2009
Springer
123views Algorithms» more  AAIM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Efficiently Generating k-Best Solutions to Procurement Auctions
: © Efficiently Generating k-Best Solutions to Procurement Auctions Andrew Byde, Terence Kelly, Yunhong Zhou, Robert Tarjan HP Laboratories HPL-2009-163 procurement, auctions, dec...
Andrew Byde, Terence Kelly, Yunhong Zhou, Robert E...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Finding approximate competitive equilibria: efficient and fair course allocation
In the course allocation problem, a university administrator seeks to efficiently and fairly allocate schedules of over-demanded courses to students with heterogeneous preferences...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm, Eric Budish