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ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Truthful Two-Stage Mechanism for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates with Unknown Costs
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that motivates selfish rational agents to make a costly probabilistic estim...
Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico H...
ICC
2008
IEEE
139views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Repeated Spectrum Sharing Game with Self-Enforcing Truth-Telling Mechanism
—Dynamic spectrum access has become a promising approach that can coordinate different users’ access to adapt to spectrum dynamics to improve spectrum efficiency. However, use...
Yongle Wu, Beibei Wang, K. J. Ray Liu
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
83views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
The price of truthfulness for pay-per-click auctions
We analyze the problem of designing a truthful pay-per-click auction where the click-through-rates (CTR) of the bidders are unknown to the auction. Such an auction faces the class...
Nikhil R. Devanur, Sham M. Kakade
AAAI
1994
13 years 11 months ago
Forming Beliefs about a Changing World
The situation calculus is a popular technique for reasoning about action and change. However, its restriction to a firstorder syntax and pure deductive reasoning makes it unsuitab...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...
AGP
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Local Closed-World Assumptions for reasoning about Semantic Web data
Abstract The Semantic Web (SW) can be seen as abstract representation and exchange of data and metadata. Metadata is given in terms of data mark-up and reference to shared, Web-acc...
Elisa Bertino, Alessandro Provetti, Franco Salvett...