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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Prediction without markets
Citing recent successes in forecasting elections, movies, products, and other outcomes, prediction market advocates call for widespread use of market-based methods for government ...
Sharad Goel, Daniel M. Reeves, Duncan J. Watts, Da...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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Truthful assignment without money
We study the design of truthful mechanisms that do not use payments for the generalized assignment problem (GAP) and its variants. An instance of the GAP consists of a bipartite g...
Shaddin Dughmi, Arpita Ghosh
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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A behavioral study of bargaining in social networks
We report on a series of highly controlled human subject experiments in networked bargaining. The basic interaction between two players is the decision of how to share a mutual pa...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, J. Stephen Judd, Michael Kearn...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
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The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier