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FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Beyond VCG: Frugality of Truthful Mechanisms
We study truthful mechanisms for auctions in which the auctioneer is trying to hire a team of agents to perform a complex task, and paying them for their work. As common in the ...
Anna R. Karlin, David Kempe, Tami Tamir
ISAAC
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Using Nash Implementation to Achieve Better Frugality Ratios
Most of the recent works on algorithmic mechanism design exploit the solution concept of dominant strategy equilibria. Such work designs a proper payment scheme so that selfish ag...
Chien-Chung Huang, Ming-Yang Kao, Xiang-Yang Li, W...
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
169views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 29 days ago
Online auctions with re-usable goods
This paper concerns the design of mechanisms for online scheduling in which agents bid for access to a re-usable resource such as processor time or wireless network access. Each a...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Mo...