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FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Mechanism 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 wide variety of r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...
AIPS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Economically Augmented Job Shop Scheduling
We present economically augmented job shop scheduling (EJSP) as an example of a coordination problem among selfinterested agents with private information. We discuss its signific...
Wolfram Conen
STOC
2007
ACM
117views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
A combinatorial, primal-dual approach to semidefinite programs
Semidefinite programs (SDP) have been used in many recent approximation algorithms. We develop a general primal-dual approach to solve SDPs using a generalization of the well-know...
Sanjeev Arora, Satyen Kale
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A principled study of the design tradeoffs for autonomous trading agents
In this paper we present a methodology for deciding the bidding strategy of agents participating in a significant number of simultaneous auctions, when finding an analytical sol...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Bart Selman
IEEEARES
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Using Smart Cards for Tamper-Proof Timestamps on Untrusted Clients
Online auctions of governmental bonds and CO2 certificates are challenged by high availability requirements in face of high peak loads around the auction deadline. Traditionally, t...
Guenther Starnberger, Lorenz Froihofer, Karl M. G&...