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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Robust Incentive-Compatible Feedback Payments
Abstract. Online reputation mechanisms need honest feedback to function effectively. Self interested agents report the truth only when explicit rewards offset the cost of reporting...
Radu Jurca, Boi Faltings
SODA
2010
ACM
201views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budg...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Vincent Conitzer, Kamesh Munag...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
152views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
On characterizations of truthful mechanisms for combinatorial auctions and scheduling
We characterize truthful mechanisms in two multi-parameter domains. The first characterization shows that every mechanism for combinatorial auctions with two subadditive bidders t...
Shahar Dobzinski, Mukund Sundararajan
APSEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Group Ticket Allocation in Software Maintenance Services
A customer reported problem (or Trouble Ticket) in software maintenance is typically solved by one or more maintenance engineers. The decision of allocating the ticket to one or m...
Karthik Subbian, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Raghav Kumar...
WINE
2005
Springer
180views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 10 days ago
Truth-Telling Reservations
We present a mechanism for reservations of bursty resources that is both truthful and robust. It consists of option contracts whose pricing structure induces users to reveal the tr...
Fang Wu, Li Zhang, Bernardo A. Huberman