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STOC
2010
ACM
194views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Multi-parameter mechanism design and sequential posted pricing
We study the classic mathematical economics problem of Bayesian optimal mechanism design where a principal aims to optimize expected revenue when allocating resources to self-inte...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, David Malec and Bal...
ICDCS
2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation with Hybrid Cloud Pricing
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Ben Liang
WECWIS
2005
IEEE
93views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
A Novel Auction Mechanism for Selling Time-Sensitive E-Services
Many e-services are time-sensitive as the users request them for a specific time period. Such services need to be repeatedly offered to keep them constantly utilized. This paper s...
Juong-Sik Lee, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
166views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
A price-anticipating resource allocation mechanism for distributed shared clusters
In this paper we formulate the fixed budget resource allocation game to understand the performance of a distributed marketbased resource allocation system. Multiple users decide ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Li Zhang
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Strategy-proof allocation of multiple items between two agents without payments or priors
We investigate the problem of allocating items (private goods) among competing agents in a setting that is both prior-free and paymentfree. Specifically, we focus on allocating mu...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer