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WINE
2009
Springer
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13 years 12 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
SIAMDM
2010
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13 years 15 hour ago
Rationality and Strongly Polynomial Solvability of Eisenberg--Gale Markets with Two Agents
Inspired by the convex program of Eisenberg and Gale which captures Fisher markets with linear utilities, Jain and Vazirani [STOC, 2007] introduced the class of EisenbergGale (EG)...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Nikhil R. Devanur, Vijay V....
IOR
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Fast, Fair, and Efficient Flows in Networks
Abstract. We study the problem of minimizing the maximum latency of flows in networks with congestion. We show that this problem is NP-hard, even when all arc latency functions ar...
José R. Correa, Andreas S. Schulz, Nicol&aa...
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A Theory of Expressiveness in Mechanisms
A key trend in (electronic) commerce is a demand for higher levels of expressiveness in the mechanisms that mediate interactions. We develop a theory that ties the expressiveness ...
Michael Benisch, Norman M. Sadeh, Tuomas Sandholm