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AAAI
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Threats and Trade-Offs in Resource Critical Crowdsourcing Tasks Over Networks
In recent times, crowdsourcing over social networks has emerged as an active tool for complex task execution. In this paper, we address the problem faced by a planner to incentivi...
Swaprava Nath, Pankaj Dayama, Dinesh Garg, Y. Nara...

Publication
270views
15 years 6 months ago
Optimal Auctions for Multi-Unit Procurement with Volume Discount Bids
Our attention is focused on designing an optimal procurement mechanism which a buyer can use for procuring multiple units of a homogeneous item based on bids submitted by autonomou...
N. Hemachandra, Raghav Kumar Gautam, V. Hastagiri ...
ISER
2004
Springer
142views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Design and Modeling of a Selective-Actuation XYZ Flexure Parallel Mechanism
This paper presents the design of a selective-actuation flexure parallel mechanism that can provide three independent translational motions. The mechanism can be used as an ultra p...
Huy-Hoang Pham, I-Ming Chen
ICRA
2009
IEEE
141views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Development of insect thorax based flapping mechanism
—Design of a flapping mechanism for flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAV) is presented based on a mathematical model of insect thorax. This model also includes an aerodynami...
Zaeem Khan, Kyle Steelman, Sunil Agrawal
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Mechanisms for Partial Information Elicitation: The Truth, but Not the Whole Truth
We examine a setting in which a buyer wishes to purchase probabilistic information from some agent. The seller must invest effort in order to gain access to the information, and m...
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein