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STOC
2010
ACM
194views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
14 years 15 days 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...
SASO
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Evaporation as a Self-Adaptation Mechanism for PSO
This work extends the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for working on dynamic environments. We propose an evaporation mechanism to solve the outdated memory problem. We...
Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Josep Lluís Ar...
ACMICEC
2003
ACM
172views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2003»
14 years 27 days ago
Automated mechanism design: complexity results stemming from the single-agent setting
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism ...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
IACR
2011
87views more  IACR 2011»
12 years 7 months ago
Is privacy compatible with truthfulness?
In the area of privacy-preserving data mining, a differentially private mechanism intuitively encourages people to share their data truthfully because they are at little risk of ...
David Xiao
JAIR
2008
145views more  JAIR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Communication-Based Decomposition Mechanisms for Decentralized MDPs
Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing,...
Claudia V. Goldman, Shlomo Zilberstein