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2008
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Truthful germs are contagious: a local to global characterization of truthfulness
We study the question of how to easily recognize whether a social unction f from an abstract type space to a set of outcomes is truthful, i.e. implementable by a truthful mechanis...
Aaron Archer, Robert Kleinberg
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Security and insurance management in networks with heterogeneous agents
Computer users express a strong desire to prevent attacks and to reduce the losses from computer and information security breaches. However, security compromises are common and wi...
Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Generalized scoring rules and the frequency of coalitional manipulability
We introduce a class of voting rules called generalized scoring rules. Under such a rule, each vote generates a vector of k scores, and the outcome of the voting rule is based onl...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Better redistribution with inefficient allocation in multi-unit auctions with unit demand
For the problem of allocating one or more items among a group of competing agents, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is strategy-proof and efficient. However, the VCG mech...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...