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AAIM
2005
Springer
75views Algorithms» more  AAIM 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Mechanism Design for Set Cover Games When Elements Are Agents
In this paper we study the set cover games when the elements are selfish agents. In this case, each element has a privately known valuation of receiving the service from the sets,...
Zheng Sun, Xiang-Yang Li, Weizhao Wang, Xiaowen Ch...
AAAI
2007
14 years 4 days ago
Design of a Mechanism for Promoting Honesty in E-Marketplaces
In this paper, we explore the use of the web as an environment for electronic commerce. In particular, we develop a novel mechanism that creates incentives for honesty in electron...
Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
103views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Mechanism design over discrete domains
Often, we wish to design incentive-compatible algorithms for settings in which the players' private information is drawn from discrete domains (e.g., integer values). Our mai...
Ahuva Mu'alem, Michael Schapira
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
KIVS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Towards the Design of Unexploitable Construction Mechanisms for Multiple-Tree Based P2P Streaming Systems
Abstract. In peer-to-peer based live streaming systems, a great number of participants have to cooperate to efficiently and reliably distribute a continuous flow of data. Each rec...
Michael Brinkmeier, Mathias Fischer, Sascha Grau, ...