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SODA
2008
ACM
109views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Auctions for structured procurement
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
Matthew Cary, Abraham D. Flaxman, Jason D. Hartlin...
WINE
2007
Springer
182views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Mechanism Design on Trust Networks
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian, Daniel M. Reeves, ...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Optimal Dynamic Pricing Framework for Autonomous Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
— In autonomous mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) where each user is its own authority, fully cooperative behaviors, such as unconditionally forwarding packets for each other or, ho...
Zhu Ji, Wei Yu, K. J. Ray Liu
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mobile opportunistic commerce: mechanisms, architecture, and application
We present mechanisms, architectures, and an implementation addressing challenges with mobile opportunistic commerce centering on markets and mechanisms that support the procureme...
Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz, Chris Meek
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Bids on Task Allocation for Multi-Robot Exploration
We propose a real time single item auction based task allocation method for the multi-robot exploration problem and investigate new bid evaluation strategies in this domain. In th...
Sanem Sariel, Tucker R. Balch