SODA
2012
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
2012
ACM
We study the design and approximation of optimal crowdsourcing contests. Crowdsourcing contests can be modeled as all-pay auctions because entrants must exert effort up-front to e...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2012
IEEE
Abstract—Opportunistic wireless channel access by nonlicensed users has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the bandwidth scarcity challenge. Auctions represent a natu...
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2011
ACM
We present the results of a large field experiment on setting reserve prices in auctions for online advertisements, guided by the theory of optimal auction design suitably adapte...