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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2005
Springer
When rational but myopic agents negotiate over the exchange of indivisible resources, any restriction to the negotiation protocol may prevent the system from converging to a socia...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
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...
APPROX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
An important research thread in algorithmic game theory studies the design of efficient truthful mechanisms that approximate the optimal social welfare. A fundamental question is ...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
2004
ACM
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for interdomain routing is designed to allow autonomous systems (ASes) to express policy preferences over alternative routes. We model these pref...
MANSCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
We study the portfolio selection problem of an investor who can optimally exert costly effort for more income. The possibility of generating more income, if necessary, increases ...