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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
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
MFCS
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Private Capacities in Mechanism Design
Algorithmic mechanism design considers distributed settings where the participants, termed agents, cannot be assumed to follow the protocol but rather their own interests. The pro...
Vincenzo Auletta, Paolo Penna, Giuseppe Persiano
CORR
2002
Springer
159views Education» more  CORR 2002»
13 years 5 months ago
Complexity of Mechanism Design
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism de...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ESA
2008
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Collusion-Resistant Mechanisms with Verification Yielding Optimal Solutions
A truthful mechanism consists of an algorithm augmented with a suitable payment function which guarantees that the "players" cannot improve their utilities by "chea...
Paolo Penna, Carmine Ventre
IOR
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Mechanism Design for Decentralized Online Machine Scheduling
We study the online version of the classical parallel machine scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time from the perspective of algorithmic mechanism desig...
Birgit Heydenreich, Rudolf Müller, Marc Uetz