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STOC
2010
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Multi-parameter mechanism design and sequential posted pricing
We study the classic mathematical economics problem of Bayesian optimal mechanism design where a principal aims to optimize expected revenue when allocating resources to self-inte...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, David Malec and Bal...
SAGT
2009
Springer
108views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
On the Planner's Loss Due to Lack of Information in Bayesian Mechanism Design
In this paper we study a large class of resource allocation problems with an important complication, the utilization cost of a given resource is private information of a profit ma...
José R. Correa, Nicolas Figueroa
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic cost-per-action mechanisms and applications to online advertising
We study the Cost-Per-Action or Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA) charging scheme in online advertising. In this scheme, instead of paying per click, the advertisers pay only when a user...
Hamid Nazerzadeh, Amin Saberi, Rakesh Vohra
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari
JCB
2007
144views more  JCB 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Statistical Mechanical Models: Helix-Coil Theory and Peptide Helicity Prediction
Analysis of biopolymer sequences and structures generally adopts one of two approaches: use of detailed biophysical theoretical models of the system with experimentally-determined...
Scott C. Schmidler, Joseph E. Lucas, Terrence G. O...