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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
111views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A qualitative vickrey auction
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
132views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
A dynamic pari-mutuel market for hedging, wagering, and information aggregation
I develop a new mechanism for risk allocation and information speculation called a dynamic pari-mutuel market (DPM). A DPM acts as hybrid between a pari-mutuel market and a contin...
David M. Pennock
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Strategy-proof allocation of multiple items between two agents without payments or priors
We investigate the problem of allocating items (private goods) among competing agents in a setting that is both prior-free and paymentfree. Specifically, we focus on allocating mu...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Commitment and extortion
Making commitments, e.g., through promises and threats, enables a player to exploit the strengths of his own strategic position as well as the weaknesses of that of his opponents....
Paul Harrenstein, Felix Brandt, Felix A. Fischer
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
105views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards truthful mechanisms for binary demand games: a general framework
The family of Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms is arguably the most celebrated achievement in truthful mechanism design. However, VCG mechanisms have their limitations. They...
Ming-Yang Kao, Xiang-Yang Li, Weizhao Wang