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SAGT
2009
Springer
102views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Free-Riding and Free-Labor in Combinatorial Agency
Abstract. This paper studies a setting where a principal needs to motivate teams of agents whose efforts lead to an outcome that stochastically depends on the combination of agent...
Moshe Babaioff, Michal Feldman, Noam Nisan
WIOPT
2006
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Reverse engineering MAC
— This paper reverse-engineers backoff-based random-access MAC protocols in ad-hoc networks. We show that the contention resolution algorithm in such protocols is implicitly part...
Ao Tang, Jang-Won Lee, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang,...
COCOON
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Average-Case Competitive Analyses for One-Way Trading
Consider a trader who exchanges one dollar into yen and assume that the exchange rate fluctuates within the interval [m, M]. The game ends without advance notice, then the trader ...
Hiroshi Fujiwara, Kazuo Iwama, Yoshiyuki Sekiguchi
STOC
2012
ACM
256views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
11 years 9 months ago
Competitive contagion in networks
We develop a game-theoretic framework for the study of competition between firms who have budgets to “seed” the initial adoption of their products by consumers located in a s...
Sanjeev Goyal, Michael Kearns
SODA
2010
ACM
190views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
One-Counter Markov Decision Processes
We study the computational complexity of some central analysis problems for One-Counter Markov Decision Processes (OC-MDPs), a class of finitely-presented, countable-state MDPs. O...
Tomas Brazdil, Vaclav Brozek, Kousha Etessami, Ant...