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SOFSEM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
When Analysis Fails: Heuristic Mechanism Design via Self-correcting Procedures
Abstract. Computational mechanism design (CMD) seeks to understand how to design game forms that induce desirable outcomes in multiagent systems despite private information, self-i...
David C. Parkes
MANSCI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum
JSAC
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Wireless channel allocation using an auction algorithm
We develop a novel auction-based algorithm to allow users to fairly compete for a wireless fading channel. We use the second-price auction mechanism whereby user bids for the chan...
Jun Sun 0007, Eytan Modiano, Lizhong Zheng
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
An expressive mechanism for auctions on the web
Auctions are widely used on the Web. Applications range from internet advertising to platforms such as eBay. In most of these applications the auctions in use are single/multi-ite...
Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber