UAI
2004
14 years 3 months ago
2004
Mechanism design has found considerable application to the construction of agent-interaction protocols. In the standard setting, the type (e.g., utility function) of an agent is n...
SODA
2008
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
IJCAI
2007
14 years 3 months ago
2007
Mechanism design has traditionally focused almost exclusively on the design of truthful mechanisms.
AAAI
2010
14 years 3 months ago
2010
In many multiagent settings, a decision must be made based on the preferences of multiple agents, and agents may lie about their preferences if this is to their benefit. In mechan...
ESA
2008
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2008
Springer
A truthful mechanism consists of an algorithm augmented with a suitable payment function which guarantees that the "players" cannot improve their utilities by "chea...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2008
Springer
Mechanism design (MD) has recently become a very popular approach in the design of distributed systems of autonomous agents. A key assumption required for the application of MD is...
AAAI
2007
14 years 4 months ago
2007
In most mechanism design settings, optimal general-purpose mechanisms are not known. Thus the automated design of mechanisms tailored to specific instances of a decision scenario...
Presentation
This talk was part of my PhD colloquium at Dept of CSA, IISc, Bangalore.
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
Conventional information fusion architectures are challenged by developments in sensor networks that allow individually-owned (and thereby selfish) sensors to interact and share d...
Presentation
This was presentation given by James Zou at AAAI 2010. (Slides are created by him)