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SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Self-financed wagering mechanisms for forecasting
We examine a class of wagering mechanisms designed to elicit truthful predictions from a group of people without requiring any outside subsidy. We propose a number of desirable pr...
Nicolas S. Lambert, John Langford, Jennifer Wortma...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Strong regularities in online peer production
Online peer production systems have enabled people to coactively create, share, classify, and rate content on an unprecedented scale. This paper describes strong macroscopic regul...
Dennis M. Wilkinson
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Non-myopic strategies in prediction markets
One attractive feature of market scoring rules [Hanson '03] is that they are myopically strategyproof: It is optimal for a trader to report her true belief about the likeliho...
Stanko Dimitrov, Rahul Sami
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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A sufficient condition for voting rules to be frequently manipulable
The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem states that (in unrestricted settings) any reasonable voting rule is manipulable. Recently, a quantitative version of this theorem was proved by ...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Incentives for expressing opinions in online polls
Prediction markets efficiently extract and aggregate the private information held by individuals about events and facts that can be publicly verified. However, facts such as the e...
Radu Jurca, Boi Faltings