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SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
CCGRID
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Grid Task-Bundle Allocation Using Bargaining Based Self-Adaptive Auction
To address coordination and complexity issues, we formulate a grid task allocation problem as a bargaining based self-adaptive auction and propose the BarSAA grid task-bundle alloc...
Han Zhao, Xiaolin Li
WINE
2007
Springer
132views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Adwords Auctions with Decreasing Valuation Bids
The choice of a bidding language is crucial in auction design in order to correctly capture bidder utilities. We propose a new bidding model for the Adwords auctions of search eng...
Gagan Goel, Aranyak Mehta
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
JCSS
2008
138views more  JCSS 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing mechanism design to algorithm design via machine learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a broad class of re...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...