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ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 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...
WINE
2007
Springer
120views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
False-Name-Proof Mechanisms for Hiring a Team
We study the problem of hiring a team of selfish agents to perform a task. Each agent is assumed to own one or more elements of a set system, and the auctioneer is trying to purch...
Atsushi Iwasaki, David Kempe, Yasumasa Saito, Mahy...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Reducing costly information acquisition in auctions
Most research on auctions assumes that potential bidders have private information about their willingness to pay for the item being auctioned, and that they use this information s...
Kate Larson
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
164views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 9 days ago
Truthful mechanisms with implicit payment computation
It is widely believed that computing payments needed to induce truthful bidding is somehow harder than simply computing the allocation. We show that the opposite is true for singl...
Moshe Babaioff, Robert D. Kleinberg, Aleksandrs Sl...
WECWIS
2003
IEEE
97views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
Auctions with Untrustworthy Bidders
The paper analyzes auctions which are not completely enforceable. In such auctions, economic agents may fail to carry out their obligations, and parties involved cannot rely on ex...
Sviatoslav Braynov, Tuomas Sandholm