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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Welfare Undominated Groves Mechanisms
A common objective in mechanism design is to choose the outcome (for example, allocation of resources) that maximizes the sum of the agents' valuations, without introducing in...
Krzysztof R. Apt, Vincent Conitzer, Mingyu Guo, Ev...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Undominated VCG redistribution mechanisms
Many important problems in multiagent systems can be seen as resource allocation problems. For such problems, the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is efficient, in...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
WINE
2009
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Sequential Bidding in the Bailey-Cavallo Mechanism
Abstract. We are interested in mechanisms that maximize social welfare. In [2] this problem was studied for multi-unit auctions and for public project problems, and in each case so...
Krzysztof R. Apt, Evangelos Markakis
CN
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
An auction mechanism for allocating the bandwidth of networks to their users
We present a mechanism for auctioning bandwidth on a network-wide basis to end users or ISPs that will utilize it for the same time period. This mechanism consists of a set of sim...
Manos Dramitinos, George D. Stamoulis, Costas Cour...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Distributed multiagent resource allocation in diminishing marginal return domains
We consider a multiagent resource allocation domain where the marginal production of each resource is diminishing. A set of identical, self-interested agents requires access to sh...
Yoram Bachrach, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein