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ISPAN
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Scheduling on Unrelated Machines
In classical mechanism design setting the outcome of the mechanism is computed by a trusted central party. In this paper we consider distributed implementations in which the outco...
Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
On the expected payment of mechanisms for task allocation
We study a representative task allocation problem called shortest paths: Let G be a graph in which the edges are owned by self interested agents. The cost of each edge is privatel...
Artur Czumaj, Amir Ronen
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
259views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Designing adaptive trading agents
ended abstract summarizes the research presented in Dr. Pardoe’s recently-completed Ph.D. thesis [Pardoe 2011]. The thesis considers how adaptive trading agents can take advantag...
David Pardoe, Peter Stone
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
105views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
Mechanism design for online real-time scheduling
For the problem of online real-time scheduling of jobs on a single processor, previous work presents matching upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio that can be achieved ...
Ryan Porter
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, ...