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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Modeling volatility in prediction markets
There is significant experimental evidence that prediction markets are efficient mechanisms for aggregating information and are more accurate in forecasting events than tradition...
Nikolay Archak, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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But who will monitor the monitor?
Consider a group of individuals in a strategic environment with moral hazard and adverse selection, and suppose that providing incentives for a given outcome requires a monitor to...
David M. Rahman
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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On random sampling auctions for digital goods
In the context of auctions for digital goods, an interesting Random Sampling Optimal Price auction (RSOP) has been proposed by Goldberg, Hartline and Wright; this leads to a truth...
Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Aravind Srinivasa...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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On representing coalitional games with externalities
We consider the issue of representing coalitional games in multiagent systems with externalities (i.e., in systems where the performance of one coalition may be affected by other ...
Tomasz P. Michalak, Talal Rahwan, Jacek Sroka, And...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Sybilproof transitive trust protocols
We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...
Paul Resnick, Rahul Sami
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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A qualitative vickrey auction
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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On the price of mediation
We study the relationship between the social cost of correlated equilibria and the social cost of Nash equilibria. In contrast to previous work focusing on the possible benefits ...
Milan Bradonjic, Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya, Adam Meyerson...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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An optimal lower bound for anonymous scheduling mechanisms
Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, Ron Lavi
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Revenue submodularity
Shaddin Dughmi, Tim Roughgarden, Mukund Sundararaj...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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The price of truthfulness for pay-per-click auctions
We analyze the problem of designing a truthful pay-per-click auction where the click-through-rates (CTR) of the bidders are unknown to the auction. Such an auction faces the class...
Nikhil R. Devanur, Sham M. Kakade