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2009
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The Stackelberg Minimum Spanning Tree Game on Planar and Bounded-Treewidth Graphs
Jean Cardinal, Erik D. Demaine, Samuel Fiorini, Gw...
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2009
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News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network
We argue that users in social networks are strategic in how they post and propagate information. We propose two models — greedy and courteous — and study information propagatio...
Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, L...
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2009
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Pseudonyms in Cost-Sharing Games
This work initiates the study of cost-sharing mechanisms that, in addition to the usual incentive compatibility conditions, make it disadvantageous for the users to employ pseudon...
Paolo Penna, Florian Schoppmann, Riccardo Silvestr...
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2009
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2D-TUCKER Is PPAD-Complete
Dömötör Pálvölgyi
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2009
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Covering Games: Approximation through Non-cooperation
We propose approximation algorithms under game-theoretic considerations. We indroduce and study the general covering problem which is a natural generalization of the well-studied m...
Martin Gairing
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2009
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Nash Dynamics in Congestion Games with Similar Resources
We study convergence of ε-Nash dynamics in congestion games when delay functions of all resources are similar. Delay functions are said to be similar if their values are within a...
Anand Bhalgat, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sanjeev Khanna
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2009
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Mechanism Design for Complexity-Constrained Bidders
A well-known result due to Vickery gives a mechanism for selling a number of goods to interested buyers in a way that achieves the maximum social welfare. In practice, a problem wi...
Ravi Kumar, Mohammad Mahdian, Amin Sayedi
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2009
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On the Impact of Strategy and Utility Structures on Congestion-Averse Games
Recent results regarding games with congestion-averse utilities (or, congestion-averse games—CAGs) have shown they possess some very desirable properties. Specifically, they hav...
Thomas Voice, Maria Polukarov, Andrew Byde, Nichol...
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2009
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Tighter Bounds for Facility Games
In one dimensional facility games, public facilities are placed based on the reported locations of the agents, where all the locations of agents and facilities are on a real line. ...
Pinyan Lu, Yajun Wang, Yuan Zhou
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2009
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Competitive Routing over Time
Congestion games are a fundamental and widely studied model for selfish allocation problems like routing and load balancing. An intrinsic property of these games is that players ...
Martin Hoefer, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Heiko Rögli...