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EOR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
DEA based auctions
We discuss the design of multi-dimensional tender and auction mechanisms that combine Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and auction theory. The mechanisms select an agent to perform...
Peter Bogetoft, Kurt Nielsen
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Multi-Unit Auctions: Beyond Roberts
We exhibit incentive compatible multi-unit auctions that are not affine maximizers (i.e. are not of the VCG family) and yet approximate the social welfare to within a factor of 1 ...
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan
NETWORKING
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Server Guaranteed Cap: An Incentive Mechanism for Maximizing Streaming Quality in Heterogeneous Overlays
We address the problem of maximizing the social welfare in a peer-to-peer streaming overlay given a fixed amount of server upload capacity. We show that peers' selfish behavio...
Ilias Chatzidrossos, György Dán, Vikt&...
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, ...
JSAC
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Incentives for large peer-to-peer systems
We consider problems of provisioning an excludable public good amongst n potential members of a peer-to-peer system who are able to communicate information about their private pre...
Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. Weber