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WINE
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Collusion in VCG Path Procurement Auctions
We consider collusion in path procurement auctions, where payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show that collusion can increase the utility of the agents, and in som...
Yoram Bachrach, Peter Key, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
WINE
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Economic Mechanisms for Shortest Path Cooperative Games with Incomplete Information
Abstract. In this paper we present a cooperative game theoretic interpretation of the shortest path problem. We consider a buying agent who has a budget to go from a specified sou...
T. S. Chandrashekar, Yadati Narahari
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Coalitional skill games
We consider Coalitional Skill Games (CSGs), a simple model of cooperation among agents. This is a restricted form of coalitional games, where each agent has a set of skills that a...
Yoram Bachrach, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
MFCS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Cost of Stability in Network Flow Games
The core of a cooperative game contains all stable distributions of a coalition’s gains among its members. However, some games have an empty core, with every distribution being ...
Ezra Resnick, Yoram Bachrach, Reshef Meir, Jeffrey...