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FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Mechanism 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 wide variety of r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...
SODA
2010
ACM
164views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 4 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...
AAAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
CORR
2010
Springer
156views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Selling Privacy at Auction
We initiate the study of markets for private data, through the lens of differential privacy. Although the purchase and sale of private data has already begun on a large scale, a t...
Arpita Ghosh, Aaron Roth
CDC
2009
IEEE
122views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal mistuning for improved stability of vehicular platoons
— We consider a decentralized bidirectional control of a platoon of N identical vehicles moving in a straight line. Such problems are known to suffer from poor stability margin a...
Prabir Barooah, Prashant G. Mehta